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U.S. aid workers depart Pakistan after ordeal

Freed U.S. aid workers speak with reporters in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The families of Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry, two U.S. aid workers jailed for more than three months in Afghanistan by the Taliban, have left Pakistan, the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad said Sunday.

The Mercers and the Currys, accompanied by their daughters, left Pakistan Saturday.

The embassy did not disclose their destination, but Curry told reporters last week the women would be debriefed by U.S. officials for about a week and a half before returning to the United States.

Mercer, 24, and Curry, 30, were among eight Western aid workers detained in August on charges of trying to convert Muslims to Christianity, a violation under Taliban law. The group, which also included four Germans and two Australians, worked for Shelter Now International, a German relief agency that provided food and homes to Afghanistan's poor.

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A plane carrying the four Germans landed in Frankfurt, Germany, on Sunday at 1 p.m. (7 a.m. ET) It was not clear if any of the other aid workers were on board the aircraft.

The aid workers were released Thursday, following the fall of Kabul, Afghanistan, to opposition forces. They were taken to Pakistan and were reunited with their families.