Four Italian journalists, abducted on Wednesday in Libya, were freed on Thursday, the Italian Foreign Ministry said.
The journalists are all said to be doing well.
Two correspondents from the Corriere della Sera newspaper, Elisabetta Rosaspina and Guiseppe Sarcina, along with Domenico Quirico, a correspondent from the La Stampa daily, and Claudio Monici, a correspondent from the Avvenire newspaper, were abducted by armed men some 80 km (some 50 miles) from the Libyan capital.
According to Italian media, the car carrying the journalists was stopped by an armed gang on Wednesday. They killed the driver, robbed the journalists and then handed them over to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's supporters.
