Mozambique rebels release prisoners
NZPA-Reuter Blantyre, Malawi Fifty-seven foreigners taken prisoner by Rightwing Mozambican rebels have been handed over to the Red Cross, which expects more to be released today.
Malawi’s official news agency. Mana, said 43 Portuguese, 10 Pakistanis, two Mauritians and two Cape Verdians were handed over in the rebelheld town of Milange, near the Malawi-Mozam-bique border although the International Committee of the Red Cross (1.C.R.C.) said the captives were released at the border.
The hostages were later brought to the southern Malawi city of Blantyre. The Red Cross said that all but two Mauritians — a father and son who want to go to Portugal — would be repatriated. In Geneva, the I.C.R.C. said it expected another group of eight captives — a Briton, four Portuguese, a West German and his wife and daughter — to be released also. Some of those freed yesterday had been held for more than a year.
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