'Kidnapped' TV crew freed
20/07/2006 19:40  - (SA)  

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Hezbollah grab foreign journos

Beirut - Lebanese police said on Thursday that two British TV journalists thought abducted by Hezbollah in Beirut were in fact briefly detained by officers and released.

They identified the pair as Dave Mason and Richard Gaisford, working for the British morning news programme GMTV.

They said they had been taken away by police after a scuffle broke out while they were filming Lebanese refugees in Beirut.

A Lebanese internal security forces officer had earlier said that the crew had been filming when "Hezbollah elements seized them on suspicion of being spies".

- AFP

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