(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Five Egyptian embassy staff who were kidnapped in the Libyan capital Tripoli have been freed, Libyan officials said.
Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Razak Grady said that three diplomats had been released and the others were being handed over to the authorities.
Four Egyptian officials were snatched from their homes on Saturday with another seized on Friday. It is unclear who seized them. The kidnappings have been linked to the arrest of a Libyan militant leader.
Shabaan Hadiya, head of the Libya Revolutionaries' Operation Room (LROR), was arrested in Egypt on Friday. Cairo evacuated its diplomatic missions in Tripoli and Benghazi following the abductions.
"I can confirm that three of the Egyptian embassy staff are home and the rest are in the process of being transferred to the custody of state authorities," Grady told the BBC.
"They are healthy, they have been treated well," he added. He said that the men were being held outside of Tripoli, but gave no further details
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