Leftist guerrillas freed an American photographer and a British reporter on Saturday after kidnapping them eleven days earlier in Colombia.
Scott Dalton of Conroe, Texas, and Ruth Morris, a British citizen raised in southern California, were the first foreign journalists to be kidnapped in Colombia's forty year long war. Both live in Bogota and had been in Arauca on assignment for an American paper - the Los Angeles Times.
The National Liberation Army, known as the ELN, released the journalists to an International Red Cross delegate in eastern Colombia, not far from where they were abducted, Red Cross spokesman Carlos Rios said, according to AP.
They were driven in a van to an airport in Saravena, a town in Arauca state near the Venezuelan border. They then left on a Red Cross plane to the capital of Bogota, where they were taken to the American Embassy. (Albawaba.com)
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