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A German aid worker abducted in southern Sudan on Monday has been released and flown to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, the United Nations reported on Thursday.
Preliminary reports indicated the relief worker, an employee of non-governmental organisation World Vision, was in good health, UN spokesman Fred Eckhard told reporters in New York.
Eckhard said the UN was working with World Vision and the German government to secure the release of two other aid workers still being held captive. "The United Nations is very concerned about the welfare of the two aid workers still missing," he said.
The three, all employees of World Vision, went missing on Monday during a militia attack on the town of Waat, Upper Nile State. A fourth World Vision staff member, Kenyan national Charles Kibbe, was killed in the attack.
Although it was unclear who was responsible for the attack on Waat, German news agency Deutsche-Presse-Agentur (DPA) reported that the two remaining captives were being held by members of a splinter militia opposed to the main rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A).
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