主题：【最新消息】七名在伊拉克被绑架中国人已经获释！ -- 宁子
家园 【最新消息】七名在伊拉克被绑架中国人已经获释！ BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Seven Chinese hostages who were captured in Iraq Sunday night have been released, the official Xinhua news agency reported early Tuesday.
The hostages were abducted late Sunday in central Iraq as they traveled from Jordan to Baghdad.
Further details on their release were not immediately available.
Before the release China had set up a diplomatic team to coordinate efforts to have the men released.
China's Foreign Ministry said Monday Iraq should "take all necessary measures to identify the kidnappers and whereabouts of the hostages, and to rescue them safely," the ministry said.
The Chinese embassy was also in contact with the Iraqi Governing Council and other relevant people, requesting their help in securing the release of the hostages.
It is unclear why the men -- who range in age from 18 to 49 and were all from Fujian province in southern China -- were traveling in Iraq.
Xinhua reported the men might have taken a detour as they were traveling to Baghdad because the normal route from the Jordanian border to the capital has been closed by recent fighting.
In other hostage developments, British citizen Gary Teeley was been released on Sunday, but there was no word on other civilians held by insurgents, including an American and three Japanese.
Teeley, who lives in the Middle East, was reported missing Thursday and released Sunday.
An American hostage, identified as Thomas Hamill, was shown Saturday on news video by the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
The video indicated Hamill was captured between Baghdad and Fallujah, 35 miles (56 kilometers) west of the capital, where U.S. Marines have been fighting insurgents for control of the town.
The network showed a car stopping on a highway and armed masked men getting out and asking journalists to look at Hamill, who was sitting in the back seat next to a gunman.
A journalist asked Hamill what happened, and he replied in a slight Southern U.S. accent that "they attacked our convoy. That's all I'm going to say." He gave his name, then the men got into the car and drove off.
It was unclear if Hamill was referring to an incident Friday when a fuel convoy was attacked near Baghdad International Airport.
The Pentagon said two U.S. soldiers and four civilian contractors -- some of them Americans -- are unaccounted for after the fuel convoy was attacked. The four worked for the same company.
One U.S. soldier and an Iraqi driver were killed in the incident, and 12 people were wounded.
Arabic-language network Al-Jazeera later broadcast video of Hamill sitting in front of an Iraqi flag.
A voice, apparently from one of the abductors, said if U.S. troops did not leave Fallujah by Sunday morning he would "be treated worse than the four Americans that were killed in Fallujah."
The latter was a reference to the killings of four civilian contractors March 31. Their remains were dragged in the street and hanged from a bridge over the Euphrates River.
Meanwhile, the Japanese Kyodo news agency reported that the three Japanese hostages would be freed at early Sunday. But that deadline also passed with no word on whether the hostages were let go.
The kidnappers threatened to burn the Japanese hostages alive Sunday unless Japan pulls its troops out of Iraq. (Full story)
About two hours after the deadline, Japan's Jiji news agency reported that Al-Jazeera said the hostages had been released. Al-Jazeera denied reporting that.
The three Japanese civilians -- a journalist, a nongovernmental organization worker and an aid worker -- were kidnapped last week, as were an Arab man from Jerusalem and a Syrian-born Canadian, both aid workers.
Germany's Foreign Ministry said there is a "high probability" that two German security workers missing in Iraq are dead.
They were en route from Amman, Jordan, to Baghdad to work as security guards for the German Embassy when their convoy came under attack Wednesday, according to German state media.
The rest of the convoy arrived in Baghdad, according to the media reports. German officials do not expect to confirm the deaths for several days, until the bodies are recovered.
Seven South Korean Christian missionaries were released Thursday after kidnappers held them for several hours.
-- CNN Beijing Bureau Chief Jaime FlorCruz, Arabic Editor Caroline Faraj, Octavia Nasr and Claudia Otto contributed to this report
家园 Great! 新华网巴格达4月12日电（记者聂晓阳 李骥志）中国驻伊拉克大使馆复馆小组组长孙必干12日晚证实，11日被不明武装分子劫持并扣押的7名中国人已经安全获释，并被转交给中国驻伊拉克大使馆复馆小组，目前他们正乘车前往位于巴格达的临时住处。
新华社记者12日晚在巴格达伊斯兰教长老会的一处场所见到刚刚获释的7名中国人。记者看到，7人中有2人因车祸受伤，其余5人身体状况良好。据伤者说，他们的伤势虽然不十分严重，但仍需要住院观察治疗。
伊斯兰教长老会的一名宗教领袖说，这7名中国人是当晚9点由劫持者移交给长老会的。劫持者说，在看到长老会呼吁伊拉克武装分子释放平民人质之后，他们决定通过长老会向中国方面移交被扣押的中国人。
这7名中国人11日上午从约旦过关进入伊拉克，他们在伊拉克中部城市费卢杰至北部城市摩苏尔的公路上被不明身份的武装分子扣押。经有关部门核实，在伊拉克被扣的7名中国公民均为男性，来自中国福建省。他们的姓名是：薛由贵、林金萍、李桂武、李桂平、魏为龙、陈孝金、林孔明。
7名中国人在伊拉克被劫持后，中国党和国家领导人对7名中国公民在伊拉克遭劫持事件十分关注，指示外交部和有关驻外使领馆全力开展营救工作，使被扣人质早日获得自由。
中国驻伊拉克使馆复馆小组随即采取多方面措施，尽最大努力营救被扣押人员。孙必干还与伊拉克内政部新任部长通话，请求伊方采取一切必要措施，确定绑架者身份及人质去向，在确保人质安全的情况下紧急营救。中国驻伊使馆复馆小组还与伊临管会及其他有关各界人士积极联系，请他们施加影响，帮助解救中国人质。