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DUBAI, April 29 (Reuters) – An al Qaeda-linked group on
Sunday freed 73 Yemeni soldiers it captured during a major
assault in the south of the country last month, residents said,
after mediation by religious scholars and tribal elders.
Residents of the southern town of Jaar, controlled by
militants who call themselves Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans of
Islamic Law), saw the soldiers being let out of the school
building where they were being held.
(Reporting by Mohammed Mukhashaf; Writing by Isabel Coles;
Editing by Janet Lawrence)
