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Colombian rebels free 2 kidnapped journalists after 11 days.(The Dallas Morning News)
Byline: Tracey Eaton
BOGOTA, Colombia _ Rebels on Saturday freed two foreign journalists, the first to be kidnapped in this South American nation in decades.
Texas photographer Scott Dalton and British writer Ruth Morris, on assignment for the Los Angeles Times, were reported in good health after 11 days in captivity.
The National Liberation Army, or ELN, released the pair to an International Red Cross delegation in eastern Colombia and they were flown to Bogota.
Still, experts say, Colombia remains one of the world's most dangerous places for journalists and the risks are likely to rise as the country's four-decade-old civil war intensifies.
The journalists' kidnapping alarmed U.S. and Colombian officials and underscored how unsafe the country has become. Some 26,000 people are murdered in Colombia every year. And kidnappers have snatched ...
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