By: (AP) Iraqi insurgents in Najaf freed a Spanish radio reporter after holding him captive for four hours, the correspondent's station said.
After his release, reporter Fran Sevilla called his wife in Madrid and the newsroom to say he was unharmed, Spanish National Radio said.
Sevilla said he was returning to Baghdad, said Aurora Minguez, a reporter on the station's international desk.
Sevilla had reported Friday morning on the withdrawal of Spanish troops from a base in another city, Diwaniyah, and was intercepted after he traveled to Najaf to report on a sermon from the anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Spanish National Radio said.
He had called the newsroom in Madrid on a satellite phone as he was being abducted and managed to speak briefly before the line went dead, Spanish National Radio said.
Sevilla, 43, is an award-winning correspondent who covered the Iraq war, the war in Afghanistan, conflicts in Central America and the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
His most recent stint in Iraq began last week when he traveled to Diwaniyah to cover the withdrawal of Spanish troops.
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