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Government urges release of Indian oil workers abducted by rebels JUBA (14 Mar.) South Sudan’s government said the SPLA-IO rebels allied to former first vice president Riek Machar kidnapped two Indian oil workers at Guelguk, home to the Adar oil field in northern Upper Nile.“The transitional unity government (TGoNU) calls for unconditional release of two Indian nationals. We will not pay 1 million U.S dollars demanded by the terrorists,” Minister of Information Michael Makuei told journalists in Juba on Monday. Makuei pointed out that Ambrose Edward and Muggy Vijaya Boopathy were working with Petronas Oil Company, adding that they were stopped and taken to an unknown location by Machar’s forces. Meanwhile, Minister of Petroleum Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth said they have already beefed up security at the various oil fields after the incident. For his part, Col. William Gatjiath Deng, the SPLA-IO military spokesman, said in a statement that they captured the two Indian nationals at Guelguk during fighting with the government forces."Two Indians engineers namely Mr. Ambross Edward and Mr. Muggy Vijaya Boopathy working for the Juba regime were captured alive on Thursday, March 09, 2017," said Gatjiath. -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14or6aGUfZ1qOvtdhjw12x2oUYT5iVZ7Vp23-h9om7s6owQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
