Colombia's FARC rebels release 10 hostages

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BOGOTA (AFP) — Colombia's Marxist FARC rebel group has freed 10 hostages kidnapped last week, handing eight of them over to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the ICRC said Thursday.

"The civilians were released following a request made by the FARC to the ICRC," it said in a statement from its Bogota office, adding that the handover took place Wednesday in the rural northwest area of Vigia del Fuerte.

"The operation was the outcome of a strictly confidential dialogue between the parties concerned and the ICRC's neutral and independent humanitarian action," the humanitarian organization added.

The other two hostages freed were handed over to local authorities in Choco.

The 10 were among a group of 18 captured July 17 by the Revolutionary...