Italy hostage released in Kabul

[Eugene]

Last Updated: Thursday, 9 June, 2005, 18:06 GMT 19:06 UK

Italy hostage released in Kabul

Italian aid worker Clementina Cantoni has been freed nearly a month
after being taken hostage in Afghanistan, the Afghan interior ministry
has said.

"She has just been released," said a ministry spokesman. "She is fine."

Ms Cantoni, who works for aid agency Care International, was abducted
on 16 May by gunmen who forced her out of her car in central Kabul.

She has been in Afghanistan since September 2003, supporting more than
10,000 widows and their children.

EDIT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4078608.stm

[reality based]

1. She had better be careful going to the airport n/t

[Up2Late]

2. (Afghanistan) -- Kidnapped Italian aid worker released (Xinhuanet)

(I don't know why this is breaking so slowly, but NPR just reported this too, I hope this one makes it out alive.)

KABUL, June 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Italian aid worker Clementina Cantoni,who was kidnapped three weeks ago, was released Thursday, said an Afghan official.

"She has been released, she is at the Ministry of Interior," said Interior Ministry spokesman Latfullah Mashal.

Clementina Cantoni, a 32-year-old Italian woman who has been working in Afghanistan for more than three years, had been kidnapped by four gunmen on May 16. Enditem

<http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/10/content_3065641.htm>

[Up2Late]

3. What a weird Headline!

I think they took the story from a Bulgarian News Agency <http://www.novinite.com/>