The Sudanese security and intelligence agency announced that it had carried out a qualitative operation that enabled it to liberate an Egyptian military force that had been kidnapped by a Libyan group that was "neutral" on the border between the three countries.
The agency explained that the kidnappers transferred the Egyptian military into the southern Libyan. The Sudanese Center for Press Services said the Egyptian force was composed of an officer and four soldiers.
The head of the al-Jazeera office in Khartoum, the Muslim al-Kabbashi, said that the Egyptian side said that these soldiers had wandered in the desert. But there are no details about the area they are in, nor about the circumstances of their arrival on the border between Libya and Sudan.
He added that the Egyptian intelligence searched for these military several days before requesting assistance from the Sudanese counterpart, which had a force in this border area with Libya.
He said that the Sudanese intelligence has moved and made numerous contacts ended with the removal of the Egyptian military from the grip of hijackers from the Libyan tribes of Tibet.
He pointed out that the arrival of these military to Khartoum this evening, where they will be handed over to four officers of the Egyptian intelligence and arrived in Sudan for the same purpose.
He added that the Sudanese intelligence will hold a press conference later to highlight the process of clearing the Egyptian soldiers from families in the Libyan desert.