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Italian photo journalist Freed

Paul | 03.11.2006 16:00 | Oxford

Today the independent Italian photo journalist was freed and is now on the way to Kabul where he will fly to italy to his son. There had been no news for about 10 days so I was getting ready for bad news.


Afghanistan, Gabriele Torsello is free
Italian freelance fotoreporter, kidnapped in southern Afghanistan on October 12, has been released

Today, friday november 3, at around 10 italian time (1,30 afghan time) a phone call to the hospital run by the Ngo Emergency in Lashkar-gah has provided information on a site, on the road to Kandahar, where Gabriele Torsello might have been released.An afghan member of Emergency staff reached the defined place. There he found the italian journalist and took him to italian government officials.The Ngo Emergency promptly informed Torsello's relatives and the italian Foreign affair ministry


Paul