# Two European women held in Niger for over a year freed in Libya

https://mins.news/en/item/110752

- BBC News, 2026-10-22 08:21 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq62y0v7434yo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Swiss aid worker Eva Gretzmacher and Austrian community worker Claudia Abbt were freed after more than a year in captivity in Niger and handed to authorities in Benghazi, Libya. They had been kidnapped separately in Agadez last year. Their captors, demands and release circumstances were not disclosed.

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