Nigerian police free 27 hostages, including five Chinese vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
. For many years, kidnappings were concentrated on workers in the oil-rich south, but attacks are now common across large parts of the country.
Police said the five Chinese citizens, kidnapped on April 15 in Bobi in central Niger state, were freed on May 5 in a forest in Birnin Gwari in neighbouring Kaduna state. Two kidnappers were shot dead in the rescue mission, but the five hostages were unhurt. No other details were given.
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