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Oil Worker Tells Of Kidnap Ordeal

Tue, October 24, 2006

Source: Ananova

A kidnapped British oil worker has told how he was ordered at gunpoint to tell his bosses that one of his colleagues had died in captivity.

A kidnapped British oil worker has told how he was ordered at gunpoint to tell his bosses that one of his colleagues had died in captivity.

Graeme Buchan was one of seven oil workers freed by Nigerian militants at the weekend after being held hostage for nearly three weeks.

After his return to Britain on Monday, Mr Buchan said he was beaten and forced to call the chief executive of his employers to falsely say that his colleague Paul Smith was dead.

He told a press conference in Aberdeen: "I'm afraid the gun at my head may have uncovered a talent for acting I didn't know I had."

The claims of Mr Smith's death were passed on to his devastated wife who told their four-year-old son that his father was dead.

She said on Sunday she was "hysterical" when her husband phoned home to say he was alive and had been released.

Ananova