Four Italian journalists kidnapped and held by suspected loyalists of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi have been freed, according to Italy's foreign ministry.
The journalists were reportedly freed during a raid on the house in Tripoli in which they were being held.
They were abducted and their driver was killed on Wednesday west of the capital, the ministry had said.
One of them had told the Italian consul in Benghazi by phone that they were in good health.
Milan-based daily Corriere della Sera named the four as its journalists Elisabetta Rosaspina and Giuseppe Sarcina, Domenico Quirico from Turin-based La Stampa and Claudio Monici, from Avvenire, the daily of the Italian Catholic Bishops Conference.
On Wednesday, the journalists were stopped on a highway between Tripoli and Zawiya by a group of civilians, who handed them over to forces faithful to Col Gaddafi, the paper's website said.
Italy has been part of Nato's bombing campaign against Col Gaddafi's forces.
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