2 French aid workers held in Afghanistan released

Two French humanitarian aid workers kidnapped at gunpoint last month have been released, according to the aid group Action Against Hunger.

The two are "apparently healthy," the Paris-based organization said in a brief statement Saturday, adding that arrangements are under way to bring them back to France as soon as possible.

The statement did not provide any details about the circumstances of the release or say who had been behind the kidnapping.

The two aid workers, whose names have not been released, were taken at gunpoint from the house where they were sleeping in the Afghan province of Day Kundi overnight on July 18. The kidnappers …