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Somali gunmen release kidnapped UN workers - official

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Saturday, June 28, 2008

MOGADISHU, June 28 (Reuters) - Somali gunmen released two United Nations workers from Sweden and Denmark hours after kidnapping them in the Bakool region of south central Somalia on Saturday, U.N. officials said.

"The Danish and the Swedish workers were released...without ransom and they are safe waiting for a flight to Nairobi," Mohamed Nur Salad, a U.N. security and safety worker told Reuters.

(Reporting by Abdi Sheikh and Mohammed Ahmed in Baidoa; Writing by Wangui Kanina)

Source: Reuters, June 28, 2008