BBC: Ethiopia group release confirmed

[Eugene]

Last Updated: Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 15:26 GMT

Ethiopia group release confirmed

A group of British embassy workers kidnapped in northern Ethiopia 12 days
ago have been released, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has said.

The workers - four Britons, one French citizen and their Ethiopian staff -
were being held in Eritrea, she said.

The party were apparently on a sightseeing tour when they were abducted
on 1 March.

Mrs Beckett said the members were safe and well and were "broadly all in
good health".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6446663.stm

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Update to story: 5 Europeans are now in British Embassy in Eritrea

(at the same link as before). The 8 Ethopians kidnapped at the same time have not been released, however.

[maddezmom]

2. glad the Brits are free

Wonder if the Ethiopians will be as lucky.