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A UN-led operation to remove over one million barrels of crude oil from a rusting supertanker off Yemen safely concluded on Friday, preventing the immediate threat of a massive spill in the Red Sea.
The personnel were kidnapped by al Qaeda militants in Yemen’s southern region of Abyan on February 11, 2022.
The UN said it had transferred more than one million barrels of oil from dilapidated Yemeni tanker.
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. All five worked for the Department of Safety and Security. They were kidnapped while returning to Aden from a field mission in the southern governorate of Abyan in February 2022. World News | Yemen: Al-Qaida Kidnapped UN Workers Released After 18 Months.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed Friday the safe release of five staff members who were kidnapped and held for 18 months by a branch of al-Qaida in Yemen. “The secretary-general is profoundly relieved that their ordeal and the anxiety of their families and friends have finally come to an end,” spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters,…