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May 15, 2014, Reuters
Five staff members of the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) have been freed after being kidnapped in northwestern Syria in early January by an armed group, the aid group said in a statement on Thursday.
MSF, known for sending doctors to conflict zones, said that for security reasons it had closed a hospital and two medical centres in The Jabal Akkrad area in Syria’s northwestern Latakia province.
“The reduction of humanitarian aid is a direct consequence of the kidnapping of aid workers,” MSF said in the statement, adding that approximately 150,000 people in the wartorn area had been deprived of its help.
MSF did not specify the nationalities of the kidnapped staff, their jobs, or how they had been released. MSF said three were freed on April 4 and two on May 14, who are now on their way to meet relatives. All are physically well, MSF said.
