Four Italian journalists who were reportedly kidnapped by militias loyal to Moammar Gaddafi have been freed, the Italian Foreign Ministry said Thursday, dpa reported. Corriere della Sera, for whom two of the kidnapped journalists work, said on its website that the reporters were freed by "two young men" who broke into the Tripoli apartment where they had been hidden. The paper's editor in chief, Ferruccio de Bortoli, was said to have spoken to one of the reporters, who told him that all the people in the group were well. The journalists were ambushed Wednesday while travelling by car from Zawiyah to Tripoli. Their driver was killed in the attack.
