Red Cross workers freed in Afghanistan: official

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KABUL (AFP) — Taliban rebels have freed four Red Cross workers captured four days ago, two of them foreign nationals, a provincial government spokesman told AFP.

"I can confirm that they have been freed. They were handed to an Afghan ICRC worker," said Abdul Udood Pashtunzar, a spokesman for the Wardak provincial government where the men were released.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed told AFP earlier that the men were freed after they had been "mistakenly" kidnapped on Wednesday in Wardak.

Officials with the International Committee for the Red Cross would not confirm the four had been freed. They had said earlier they were hopeful the men -- one from Myanmar, one from Macedonia and two Afghans -- would be released Saturday.

"We want them to be...