(XINHUA)

A freed Chinese worker steps out of a plane at Wilson Airport in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, on February 7, 2012.

Twenty-nine Chinese nationals abducted by local rebels in Sudan were successfully rescued by the Sudanese army and arrived at the Chinese Embassy to Kenya that day. They flew back to China on February 9.

On January 28 a group of rebels belonging to anti-government forces attacked a camp of a Chinese company operating at a road construction site in South Kordofan State. The rebels abducted 29 of the 47 Chinese workers in the camp, while the other 18 workers fled to neighboring areas. The Sudanese army found 17 Chinese workers later and transported them to a safe place, but one worker went missing and was confirmed dead days later.