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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) - Five Chinese telecommunications workers and an Italian oil worker abducted in Nigeria's restive southern delta region have been released, militants and officials said Thursday.
A rebel group that has carried out crippling assaults against the energy industry in Africa's leading oil producer announced the Italian's release in an e-mail and identified him as Roberto Dieghi.
China's Foreign Ministry said its five citizens were released a day earlier. The government's Xinhua News Agency reported that all five were in good health and were expected to arrive in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, on Thursday.
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