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Oct 18, 2009, 6:38 GMT

Kidnappers free Irish aid agency workers in Sudan

Khartoum/Dublin - Two Irish charity agency workers were released Sunday, more than 100 days after they were kidnapped in western Sudan, a report quoting the Irish government said. The two were taken by armed gangs in a raid on the GOAL charity's compound in the town of Kutum in northern Darfur on June 3., Dubliner Sharon Commins, 33, and her Ugandan colleague Hilda Kawuki, 42, were released early Sunday, the BBC reported.

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