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Somali kidnappers release two Western journalists
04 Jan 2009 10:09:45 GMT
Source: Reuters
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BOSASSO, Somalia, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Somali kidnappers have freed two journalists, British correspondent Colin Freeman and Spanish photographer Jose Cendon, a government official said on Sunday.

"The two European journalists were freed and they are now in a hotel in Bosasso, Puntland," said Muse Gelle Yusuf, a regional governor of Bari in the semi-autonomous northern Puntland area.

The two were abducted in November as they left a hotel in the port of Bosasso.

Freeman works for Britain's Sunday Telegraph and Cendon is a freelance. (Reporting by Abdiqani Hassan)


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