THE five British embassy hostages kidnapped in Ethiopia have been released, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said today.
Mrs Beckett said in a statement that the five had been released to the authorities in neighbouring Eritrea.
In a statement to reporters in the Foreign Office, she said they were understood to be in good health.
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