ULFA-I releases ONGC employee in Nagaland
The Hindu
He was abducted from oil rig in Assam a month ago
The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) on May 22 released an employee of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited a month ago. An Army spokesperson said ONGC junior technician Ritul Saikia was released at Lungwa village in . A joint team of army and State police escorted him to district headquarters Mon. Five gunmen had abducted Mr. Saikia and two other ONGC employees from the oil rig in Charaideo district on April 21. The other two – junior technician Mohini Mohan Gogoi and junior engineering assistant Alakesh Saikia – were rescued after an encounter near the Myanmar border on April 24.
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