MILAN: The Italian Foreign Ministry confirmed that four Italian journalists taken at gunpoint in Libya were freed after a raid on the house where they were being held on Thursday.
The four were taken at gunpoint along with their Libyan driver who was killed on this Wednesday by forces loyal to the regime of fugitive Libyan dictator.
”They shot the driver dead in front of us. We are fine, but our thoughts are with the driver who died. We have become close friends with him,” Claudio Monici of Avvenire, the daily of the Italian bishops conference, told reporters in Tripoli after their release.
The others released include two correspondents from the Milan daily Corriere della Sera and one from Turin’s La Stampa.
One of the Italian Domenico Quirco said ”I am alive and well, and free, Now I am fine, but an hour ago I though I was going to die.”
The News of the release came just minutes before Premier Silvio Berlusconi went into a meeting with the head of Libya’s rebel Cabinet, who is on a European diplomatic tour aimed at securing the release of billions of dollars in frozen Libyan assets.
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