Mogadishu, (insidesomalia.org) Two Mèdecins San Frontièrs (also known as Doctors without Borders) aid workers has been released on Wednesday in Boosaaso, the capital of the semi-autonomous regional state of Puntland by their abductors who held them since last Wednesday, says Puntland Minister.

It is not known that if any ransom was paid for the release of the two hostages but Abdisamad Yusuf , Puntland Minister of Commerce the release of the two aid workers who were later taken to a hotel in Boosaaso.

Nicolas Martin. the Spanish ambassador to Kenya said that Spain was happy that two MSF aid workers; Spanish doctor Mercedes Garcia and Argentinian nurse Pilar Bauze.

Kidnappers asked for a ransom as Reuter News Agency quoted from Governor of Puntland , General Adde Musa.

A French held in captivity by armed men in Marero,34km away from for nearly three weeks was released on 24 December 2007 after negotiations mediated by Puntland authorities.

The French journalist Gwen Li Gluon was planning to shoot a documentary about the perilous voyage to Yemen and then to Gulf by Somali Immigrants for better life and safe heaven from the violence and fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

MSF evacuated its staff from southern and central Somalia on Tuesday in protest of their colleagues were in captivity.

Puntland once more staple and secure than south Somalia was recently hit hard by waves of crime, piracy and abduction as well as road side bomb and explosions which is a new phenomenon to the region.

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