Fourty kidnapped workers freed in Baghdad,Fate of others unclear

BAGHDAD - More than 40 Iraqi government employees who were among around 100 kidnapped in a raid on a Baghdad research institute have been freed, reports said on Wednesday amid conflicting accounts of exact events.
An Iraqi interior ministry spokesman was quoted by national news channel Al Iraqiya as saying that “a majority of the male employees had been released or rescued,” by interior ministry troops.
However a spokesperson for the research and higher education ministry, which employed the abducted workers said “the employees are being released in groups randomly by the kidnappers themselves.”
The spokesperson confirmed to Deutsche Presse-Agentur that around 40 of the workers had been freed, but denied the involvement of security forces. The fate of the remaining workers was meanwhile unclear.Full Report