BBC NEWS 24 104 08 Aug 14:04/07
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FOREIGN OFFICE CONFIRMS HOSTAGE RELEASE
The Foreign Office has confirmed that
rebels holding 38 hostages in Sierra
Leone have agreed to release them.
A Foreign Office spokesman said no
timetable had been agreed to free the
hostages, who include five UK soldiers.
Rebel commander Johnny Paul Koroma has
told the BBC he had spoken to the group
holding the United Nations hostages.
He said he had assured them he was not
being held prisoner by a rival rebel
group as they had believed.
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