ROME, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- An Italian construction worker has been released after being kidnapped last week in Nigeria, the Italian foreign ministry says.
Marcello Rizzo, 55, was working on a bridge project when he was abducted, the Italian news service ANSA reported Friday.
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An employee of Gitto Construction, Rizzo had lived in Nigeria for many years.
An Italian engineer and six other foreign workers were kidnapped in February by the al-Qaida-linked fundamentalist group Ansaru.
