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Russian pilots released

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    The three Russian pilots who were arrested by the rebel Mouvement de liberation du congo (MLC) on 1 December when they landed their government-chartered Antonov airplane at Basankusu, Equateur Province, not realising the town had previously been captured by the rebels, were released last Thursday, news organisations reported. The MLC claimed to have captured sizeable quantities of government arms and ammunition when it seized the Russians’ plane. The pilots were released into Libyan custody and handed over to the Russian embassy in Tripoli at the weekend, the Libyan ‘Jana’ news agency stated.

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