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Gunmen Free Australian Miners in Nigeria

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Three Australian miners were released Sunday by gunmen who attacked a worksite of an Australian mining company, local media reported.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) The three men were set free alongside a New Zealander, a South African and two Nigerians after they were ambushed on Wednesday, Macmahon Holdings said in a statement cited by the national broadcaster ABC.

The men were employed by the Perth-based mining company to work in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta. They were attacked by a group of 30 gunmen near the city of Calabar. Four Australians managed to flee, while their Nigerian driver was killed.

Macmahon Holdings chief executive Sy van Dyk said five of the kidnapped men were injured. He did not say whether the company had paid a ransom for them.

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