Chinese workers freed after Cairo kidnapping: Embassy
Two Chinese workers, kidnapped for ransom in Cairo on Thursday in a sign of growing insecurity a year after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, were released after several hours, an embassy official said.
"They are free," embassy spokesperson Lu Jingchun told AFP, without providing details of how the pair's release had been secured.
Earlier, another embassy official told AFP the kidnappers were seeking a ransom payment.