Kabul: Three Italian charity workers who
were arrested in Afghanistan and accused of plotting to kill a
governor have been freed, the UN`s representative in the
country said Sunday.
"It is over," UN representative Stefan Dimastura told
reporters, explaining that the three were at the Italian
embassy and doing well following their release.
Matteo Dell`Aria, Marco Garatti and Matteo Pagani are
members of the Milan-based non-governmental organisation
Emergency.
They were arrested earlier this month in the southern
city of Lashkar Gah and were accused by the governor of
Helmand province, Gulab Mangal, of being part of a Pakistani
Taliban-funded plot to kill him.
He also accused the Italians of being behind the death of
Ajmal Naqshbandi, an Afghan interpreter who was seized by the
Taliban with an Italian journalist in April 2007.
PTI
