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 PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) - At least 21 workers — most of them foreigners — were kidnapped Thursday in separate attacks in Nigeria's oil-rice delta region that left a Nigerian soldier dead, officials and witnesses said. Eight foreigners and a Nigerian driver were later freed.
The main militant group in the region claimed responsibility for one of the attacks, on a ship anchored off Port Harcourt, and later said it had released the eight workers kidnapped there. The group, however, denied it was behind separate raids on a power plant and bar.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said in an e-mail the hostages were on their way back to Port Harcourt by boat and a local official confirmed authorities planned to receive them at the state government headquarters.
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