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Chinese Hostages Killed in Sudan

by Christina 123 | October 27, 2008 at 01:55 pm

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SUDAN'S foreign ministry have revealed that five of the Chinese oil workers held hostage in Sudan have been killed. Two escaped, wounded, and the other two of the nine were still in kidnappers' hands. The group were kidnapped from the Kardofan oilfield in central Sudan. Rebels from Dafur have been blamed by the Sudan government.

Five Chinese oil workers kidnapped in Sudan nine days ago have been killed, Sudan's foreign ministry has said.
The five were part of a group of nine Chinese workers seized from an oil field in Kordofan in central Sudan.
The foreign ministry said two of the group were wounded but in government hands after escaping, and two were still held by their kidnappers.
The Sudanese government has blamed rebels from Darfur region, which borders Kordofan, for the kidnapping.
Oil wealth
Foreign ministry spokesman Ali al-Sadig said the kidnappers were from the Darfur rebel group the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).
"This was done with direct instructions from the Justice and Equality Movement," he said.
JEM has said it has forces in the area but was not involved in seizing the Chinese.