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Abducted tourists released
Prague - The Czech government said two Czech tourists who were abducted by gunmen two years ago as they were travelling on a bus through southwestern Pakistan have been released.
Government spokesman Martin Ayer said the two women arrived in the Czech Republic on March 28. Ayer said a Turkish humanitarian organisation helped negotiate their release.
The women, Hana Humpalova and Autonie Chrastecka, were on the road from Iran to Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, when they were seized in March 2013. --Ap