Colombia's FARC rebel group has freed 10 hostages kidnapped last week, handing eight of them over to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The handover took place Wednesday in a rural northwest area, after negotiations between FARC and the Red Cross.
The other two freed hostages were handed over to local authorities.
The 10 were among a group of 18 captured 17 July by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Two weeks earlier the group was tricked by Colombian soldiers into handing over 15 high-profile hostages, including French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt.
The group of 18 had been travelling by boat through remote jungle rivers about 600km from Bogota.
Eight of the kidnap victims - five women, two men and a child - were found by the army on the bank of the Atrato River a day after the abduction.
The ICRC said it would ‘continue to support efforts to find means of obtaining the release of other hostages and detainees in the hands of armed groups’.
FARC, Latin America's longest-running insurgency, continues to hold an estimated 700 hostages.
