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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Six hostages escaped Thursday from an oil facility where they had been held along with dozens of other people since armed men raided the Italian-run pumping station earlier this week, company officials said.
Forty-eight Nigerian employees of Agip, a subsidiary of Italian oil giant Eni SpA, were seized in the south of the country Monday when armed protesters overran and shut down Agip's Tebidaba oil pumping station, shutting off around 50,000 barrels of crude production per day.
A Rome-based spokesman for the company said six of the hostages escaped Thursday and made their way to a neighboring state, where they were treated by Agip staff for minor injuries from running through the swamps. The spokesman declined to be named, citing company policies.
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