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Hungarian kidnapped in Nigeria freed
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The Hungarian national who was kidnapped by pirates off the coasts of Nigeria in October has been freed. He arrived in Budapest on Saturday, Hungary’s counterterrorism force TEK said.
TEK has been cooperating with international partners and the Hungarian foreign ministry over the past weeks to ensure a safe return of the six kidnapped people, including the Hungarian national, to their homeland, TEK told MTI in a statement on Saturday evening.
According to earlier press reports pirates attacked a German container vessel near the coast of Nigeria on October 21 and kidnapped six crew members,
including 4 Philippines, a Ukrainian and a Hungarian national. The kidnapped crewmen were taken to Nigeria and held in captivity there.
TEK chief János Hajdú said at that time that rescuing them would “realistically” take a month or two. In an interview Hungarian television channel M1, Hajdú said that it could not be predicted precisely how much time such an action will take. It could happen that it will take a month or even a year.
In this same interview, the chief informed that the German authorities and TEK are still working on finding the kidnappers, so the case is not yet over.