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| Taleban free two S Korea hostages | Taleban free two S Korea hostages |
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| The Taleban have freed two members of a group of South Korean hostages abducted in Afghanistan. | The Taleban have freed two members of a group of South Korean hostages abducted in Afghanistan. |
| A BBC reporter in Ghazni province says he has seen the two freed women, and the governor of Ghazni said they were being taken to a Red Crescent office. | |
| Officials in Ghazni said that the Taleban had promised to release the two women following talks with a team of South Korean negotiators. | Officials in Ghazni said that the Taleban had promised to release the two women following talks with a team of South Korean negotiators. |
| Two of the 23 South Koreans captured three weeks ago have been killed. | Two of the 23 South Koreans captured three weeks ago have been killed. |
| The governor of Ghazni province, Mirajudin Patan, told the BBC the two women were on their way to an office of the Afghan Red Crescent. | |
| "We will be talking to them shortly to find as much information as we can," he added. | |
| The women, who were previously reported to be unwell, were said to be in "fair" health, the BBC's Charles Haviland says. | |
| Two killed | |
| There had been confusion over the releases, with a Taleban spokesman telling reporters on Saturday that the two had already been freed, before saying the timing of the release had yet to be decided. | |
| A new timing of 1130 GMT Monday, announced by the same spokesman, Yusuf Ahmadi, then passed with no news of any hostage releases. | |
| The Taleban have already killed two of the Koreans, including the leader of the group. | |
| The South Korean Christian aid workers were seized on 19 July. | |
| The original group of 23 - most of them women - was captured on the main road from Kabul to Kandahar. | |
| It is thought the South Korean aid workers are being held in a number of small groups in a village about 10km (six miles) from Ghazni. |