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The Filipino crewman of the "Amerigo Vespucci" who was released on Sep 30, 2010, after spending nearly weeks in captivity in Cameroon has returned home. He arrived aboard a Cathay Pacific flight CX-901 from Hong Kong on Oct 4 past 11 a.m. Welcoming him home were his relatives and officials of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA). He was abducted together with a Croatian when the ship was conducting dredging operations off the Cameroon coast on September 12. Nisda and the Croatian were crew members aboard the Belgian vessel Amerigo Vespucci.
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The Cameroon army freed the two crewmembers having been taken hostage from the "Amerigo Vespucci", on Philippino and one from Croatia. They had been kept in Douala. The government of Luxembourg as the flag state of the Belgian dredger had coordinated the efforts to free the sailors. The men had been captured by order of the rebel movement at Bakassi which intended to get eight prisoners freed.
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After a partial exchange of the crew, the "Amerigo Vespucci", is to resume its work off Douala soon. There was still no trace of the crewmembers from Croatia and the Philippines by Sep 14.
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