All hostages from Nigerian oilfield freed-militant

LAGOS, May 3 (Reuters) Nigerian militant group MEND said all the hostages taken from an Italian-operated offshore oilfield earlier today had been released.

The self-styled leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said his group had not intended to take more hostages, having seized six foreign workers from a US-operated oilfield on Tuesday.

Reuters SG DB1906