WORLD BRIEFING / SOMALIA
FROM TIMES WIRE REPORTS
Gunmen released two European aid workers after holding them for nearly 10 days in southwestern Somalia.
Rab Dhure District Commissioner Sheik Mohamed Kheyr said elders and an extremist Islamic group helped secure the release of the employees of Doctors Without Borders. He said no ransom was paid.
Dutch national Kees Keus, 49, said soon after his release that he and 40-year-old Jorgen Stassijns of Belgium were given food and water but that the circumstances of their captivity were “harsh.”
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