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Update 23:10  Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Werner Greiner, a lawyer from Zurich, has been released in the north of Mali by the captors who have held him since January, the Swiss Foreign Affairs Department confirmed Sunday. Greiner was  part of a group of six tourists taken hostage on a road from Mali to Niger where they were traveling after attending a music festival.

Greiner’s wife, Gabriella Burco, was freed in April, with three other hostages, but their British companion, Edwin Dyer, was killed in early June.

A northern African wing of Al Qaeda claimed the kidnappings.

Ed. note: Google News/AFP carries a detailed story on his release, with background on the fighting in the region.

Posted by Ellen Wallace on 12 July 2009 at 11:05 | permalink
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News story, GenevaLunch, 12 July 2009.

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