LAGOS - NIGERIAN troops have freed three more Filipinos held hostage by militants in the Niger Delta, bringing the total number of the Asians rescued in the past two days to nine, an army spokesman said on Sunday.
'In continuation of our ongoing operation in Delta State, we located and freed three more Filipinos held hostage by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND),' Colonel Rabe Abubakar told AFP.
