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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Militants in Nigeria have freed seven foreign oil workers seized during an attack earlier this month on an ExxonMobil compound in the restive southern delta region, company officials said Saturday.
The workers — four Britons, a Romanian, an Indonesian and a Malaysian — were handed over by the Nigerian government to ExxonMobil officials in the southern town of Eket, said a company official, Yemi Fakajjo. The seven were taken hostage in Eket during an Oct. 3 raid that killed two guards.
The men were all in good health, ExxonMobil spokesman Paul Arinze said. They were flown to Nigeria's economic capital, Lagos, en route to their various countries.
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