MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali government troops have rescued four foreign aid workers held hostage inside Somalia, three days after they were kidnapped from a refugee camp in neighbouring Kenya, a Somali military commander said on Monday.
"Our forces have rescued the four aid workers kidnapped from Kenya in an overnight rescue operation," Colonel Abdullahi Moalim told Reuters.
"They are healthy and unhurt," he said.
The four were staff of the Norweigan Refugee Council (NRC). The NRC declined to comment but said it would be holding a news conference within an hour.
(Reporting by Mohamed Ahmed; Additional reporting and writing by Richard Lough in Nairobi; Editing by David Clarke and Louise Ireland)