Twenty-three Egyptian workers kidnapped in Libya were freed and returned to their country on Friday (August 12th), AFP reported.
One of the freed Egyptians told state television they had been kidnapped by people demanding ransom, in an interview at a border crossing between the neighbouring North African countries.
State television reported they were freed by "Libyan special forces in co-ordination with the Egyptian general intelligence service".
It aired footage of the workers arriving at the border crossing, waving Egyptian flags.
The group was kidnapped near the oil town of Brega and held hostage for 10 days, one of them said.
Thousands of Egyptians brave the unrest in Libya for employment despite government warnings to avoid the war-torn country.
In 2015, the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" affiliate in Libya announced it had kidnapped and beheaded 21 Coptic Christians, most of them Egyptian.
