The Associated Press reports that French marine services provider, Bourbon said the three were being looked after by a company crisis unit in Nigeria and appeared to be in good health “despite difficult conditions while in captivity.”
The three were undergoing medical and psychological checks and would return to France within the next few days, the company said in a statement. The workers and a Thai citizen were kidnapped overnight September 21-22 aboard the French-flagged vessel, Bourbon Alexandre, during an attack on an offshore rig run by Addax Petroleum, a subsidiary of China’s Sinopec.
The status of the Thai national was not clear. AP quoted a Nigerian navy spokesman as saying on Wednesday that he had no information about the hostages being released.
Kouchner expressed “very great joy and deep relief” that the three had been released, and said French officials were working with Bourbon to have them brought home. Bourbon said in its statement that it would not provide details about the hostage-takers’ demands, the crew members and the date of their return to France “for reasons of confidentiality.”
It was not immediately clear whether a ransom had been paid. The release came two days after two other French citizens, two Americans, two Indonesians and a Canadian were abducted from a platform run by London-based Afren Plc, about 11 kilometres offshore.
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