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Oct 18, 2009, 10:04 GMT

Kidnappers free Irish aid agency workers in Sudan (Roundup)

Khartoum/Dublin - Two Irish charity agency workers were released Sunday, more than 100 days after they were kidnapped in western Sudan, 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, Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin confirmed. The charity's head, John O'Shea, insisted that no ransom had been paid for the women's release. Both were in good health and were being questioned by local authorities before travelling home. Some 1,600 people work for the charity in Sudan, where the Darfur region has seen some 300,000 people lose their lives since 2003 in fighting between rebel groups and Sudanese government-backed forces.

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