Abducted U.N. worker released in Guinea

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (Reuters) -- A worker for the United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR, who was abducted in Guinea September 17, has been released, a spokesman for the agency said Thursday.

Laurence Djeya would fly back to Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, Thursday afternoon from Monrovia, capital of Liberia, Alain Coulibaly told Reuters.

He had no information on her state of health and could not say under what circumstances she had been released.

Djeya, an Ivorian national, was kidnapped during an attack on the town of Macenta in southern Guinea by attackers who had crossed the border from Liberia.

Another UNHCR worker, Mensah Kpognon, a Togolese national who was head of the agency's office in Macenta, was killed in the attack.

Armed gangs from Sierra Leone and Liberia have attacked towns and villages in Guinea since the beginning of July.

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