DOHA: Qatari citizens held hostage in Iraq by unidentified gunmen since 2015 have been freed and handed over to the Iraqi interior ministry, Qatarbased al-Jazeera reported on Friday. The satellite channel gave no further details on the release of the hostages, who were seized by gunmen in December 2015 while on a hunting trip near the border with Saudi Arabia. An Iraqi security official later said Iraq would hand over the 26 hostages to Qatar´s ambassador to Baghdad.—Reuters
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