FARC frees four tourists it seized in January

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BOGOTA (AFP) — Colombian rebels have freed four tourists they seized in northwest Colombia in January but have held on to a university professor with Norwegian nationality, a military official told Colombian radio Wednesday.

"The Red Cross has informed me that through a humanitarian gesture it received four hostages" near Nuqui in Choco department, Marine Colonel Hector Aguas told Radio RCN.

Two of the six -- Onshuus Nino Alf, a professor at Bogota's University of the Andes who holds both Colombian and Norwegian nationality, and student Jorge Torres -- were not released, he said.

Those freed were businessman Jose Rodriguez; teacher Hernando Martinez; hotel owner Cesar Hoyos; and Nino's wife, biologist Maria Serrano.

Red Cross personnel were bringing...