BEIJING, Aug. 9 -- Palestinian security forces on Monday afternoon freed two foreigners that work for the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) and their Palestinian driver who were kidnapped earlier by unkown armed men in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis.

    After more than one hour of kidnapping, the two foreigners, a Briton and a Swede, were released and taken to safety by Palestinian police who stormed the kidnappers' hideout in a local refugee camp, officials and witnesses said.

    They said that the UN workers were abducted while driving in a vehicle which was intercepted and hijacked by the gunmen in the centre of Khan Yunis.

    (Source: CRIENGLISH.com)

Masked Palestinian police officers guard a vehicle carrying kidnapped foreigners after their release in the Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip Aug. 8. Palestinian militants briefly abducted two United Nations workers and their driver Monday in the Gaza town of Khan Younis before Palestinian security forces broke into the militants hideout and freed the hostages. (AP)