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Thursday, February 19, 2009
ROME (Reuters) - Two Italian nuns kidnapped by Somali gunmen last November have been freed, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Thursday.
"We are very happy," Sister Caterina Giraudo, 67, told SKY Italia television by phone from the Italian embassy in Nairobi after her release. "We were treated well, we are fine ... they gave us what was necessary," she said.
The Vatican said it welcomed the news with "great joy".
A Foreign Ministry spokesman gave no details on the release but MISNA, a Catholic missionary news agency, said the two had been freed overnight in Somalia.
The nuns were kidnapped by gunmen on November 10 in a raid on a remote Kenyan border town. The kidnappers then took them deeper into Somalia.
Source: Reuters, Feb 19, 2009