Four UN staff who were kidnapped on Thursday in Georgia have been released.
An independent Georgia TV station is reporting that the three UN military observers and an interpreter were freed in the remote Kodor Gorge region, at about 11am Irish time.
The hostages, including two Germans and a Dane, were abducted last week while monitoring the border between Georgia and the breakaway province of Abkhazia.
It was reported earlier today that they would be released, despite the demands for a $3m ransom not being met. Georgian officials said that they had promised the kidnappers would not be prosecuted under criminal law.
