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Navy frees 32 Shell employees from captivity

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    Naval troops have stormed two Ijaw communities and freed 32 oil employees kidnapped two weeks ago by militant youths in the southern Bayelsa State, news reports said on Monday.

    Reuters quoted the state-owned ‘Daily Times’ newspaper as saying the freed workers were Shell employees abducted on 4 March while working on Shell’s Tunu and Opukushi flow stations. A sailor was among the hostages freed.

    Groups in the Niger Delta had recently agreed to stop taking hostages as a form of protest.

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