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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Militants in Nigeria said Thursday they released one of three Italian hostages seized last month in an attack in the country's oil-rich southern delta region.
The militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, which has launched crippling attacks against the energy industry in Africa's oil giant since last year, announced the release in an e-mailed statement and identified the freed hostage as Roberto Dieghi.
Three Italians and one Lebanese man were seized in the Dec. 7 raid on an oil export terminal operated by Agip, a subsidiary of Italian oil firm Eni SpA.
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