Bamako, 23 April-(ANA)- Two Canadian diplomats and two European tourists have landed in Mali a day after being freed by Al-Qaeda militants who had held them hostage, reports say.
Canadian, German and Swiss diplomats as well as Malian officials greeted the four at the airport, the reports added.
Al-Qaeda's North African branch on Wednesday released Robert Fowler, UN special envoy to Niger and his assistant Louis Gay, who were snatched in Niger in December.
The Islamists also freed two female tourists from Germany and Switzerland who had been kidnapped in January.
But the women's travelling companions -- the husband of the Swiss woman and a Briton -- were still being held.
They tourists were seized in January in the border zone between Mali and Niger as they returned from a Tuareg cultural festival.
Al-Qaeda's North African branch claimed responsibility for the kidnappings.(ANA)
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