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(CNN) -- Two hostages held by an al Qaeda group in Tunisia since February have been released, the Austrian Foreign Ministry said Friday.
"Wolfgang Ebner and Andrea Kloiber (are) in the care of the Malian authorities," said a terse statement from Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik that was posted on the ministry's Web site.
No other details were released.
Ebner and Kloiber were last heard from in February while they were on a vacation in southern Tunisia.
In March, the Austrian government received an audio message via the Internet from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claiming to have kidnapped the pair.
Several days later, the group released a set of written demands and six photographs that included images of the two Austrians.
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