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The International Committee of the Red Cross announced Thursday that it arranged for the release Wednesday of eight civilians held for a week by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
The handover of the eight Colombians, who were abducted July 17, occurred in a rural area of Vigia del Fuerte in the northwestern part of Colombia and "was done completely independently," said Yves Heller, a spokesman for the ICRC in Bogota.
Heller said no Colombian military were involved in the release. 
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