Four aid workers from the French relief group Action Contre La Faim (Action Against Hunger) have been released in Somalia after being held hostage for nine months, the French presidency said Tuesday. Somali gunmen had seized the two French women, a Belgian and a Bulgarian last November, along with two Kenyan pilots who were accompanying them to an area bordering Ethiopia.
President Nicolas Sarkozy said he was pleased and relieved by the newsch head of state "offers his warmest congratulations to all those whose involvement brought an end to the hostage-taking," it added, without elaborating.
The gunmen snatched the four aid workers and the two pilots on November 5 as they were tryi the aid workers were escorted by five or six security guards when they tried to board the plane chartered by the European Commission but that they were easily overpowered by about 20 heavily-armed men.
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