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Kidnapped Italian sailors regain freedom
« on: January 11, 2013, 04:10:06 PM »
FREEDOM came Wednesday for three Italian sailors, who were abducted from a ship off Nigeria last month.

“Our three sailors are free and will soon return to Italy,” Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi said in a statement, while the ministry said the Italians would be flown back to the country later.

According Agence France Presse (AFP), armed pirates abducted the sailors after attacking MV Asso Ventuno some 40 nautical miles off Bayelsa State on December 23. They were named as Emiliano Astarita, Salvatore Mastellone and Giuseppe D’Alessio, from the Campania region in southern Italy.

“We‘re well, they treated us well,” Astarita told his father, Franco, by telephone on his release, ANSA news agency said. Terzi said the ministry was “very relieved” because “the conditions in which they were abducted on December 23 were very worrying.”

He added: “An armed group boarded the ship and kidnapped them and took them ashore. The critical security situation in the area they were taken caused us particular concern.”

The ministry gave no details of a fourth sailor abducted with them, though Italian media said he was Ukrainian and had been freed along with the Italians. Terzi thanked the Nigeria authorities, who he said collaborated closely with the Italian foreign office to free the sailors.


Source:Vanguard

 

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