Chinese fishermen released

• Source: Global Times
• [02:20 March 19 2010]
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Three Chinese workers were abducted by unidentified kidnappers in May 2008 in Calabar, the capital city of Nigeria's southern Cross River State, which is adjacent to Cameroon.

The Cameroonian army deployed a Rapid Response Unit in April 2009 to beef up security in the Bakassi peninsula.

In October 2009, the Unit killed four pirates and wounded four others at the Idabato sea opening in the Bakassi peninsula.

Sudan Thursday executed two people convicted of killing four oil workers, two of them Chinese, in one of the country's most energy-rich regions, the state Suna News Agency reported.

The report did not give further details of the incident but said the workers had been employed by a Chinese oil company.

The two were found guilty in 2004 of killing the workers and looting their vehicle in Heglig in Sudan's South Kordofan state.

Suna said the executions took place in the federal prison in El Obeid, the main town in Sudan's North Kordofan state.

Heglig oil field is currently operated by the Greater Nile Petroleum Operation Company, a consortium led by China's CNPC that also includes Malaysia's Petronas and Sudan's state-owned Sudapet.

Global Times – Agencies