Red Cross staffer freed in Afghanistan weeks after abduction

The International Committee of the Red Cross says a staff member who was abducted in northern Afghanistan last month has been released.
The ICRC's head of delegation in Afghanistan, Monica Zanarelli, said today that the man is "safe and sound" and is now with its team in Kunduz. The agency said it wouldn't comment on the identity of the abductors or their motives or give any details of the release.
The ICRC staffer, whose nationality wasn't specified, was snatched on December 19 in the northern province of Kunduz as he was travelling to Mazar-i-Sharif. According to the Red Cross, three other colleagues were left unharmed.

A spokeswoman from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Madrid confirmed to The Associated Press that the aid worker was a Spaniard.