UN hostages freed

by admin
Mar 8, 2013

A group of UN observers, who were abducted by a Syrian rebel group, has arrived in Jordan after their earlier release.

A UN team, sent to collect the 21 hostages from inside Syria, couldn’t reach the area due to government shelling.

The rebels themselves then transported the hostages to the Jordanian border, and were taken to the capital Amman.

The hostages appeared in a video, saying they were treated well by the rebels, whose move to seize the UN observers was condemned by the Free Syrian Army.

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