French hostage freed in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan, April 8 (UPI) -- Photographer Pierre Borghi, kidnapped in Afghanistan in November, has been freed, Afghan police said Monday.

"He has been released. He was found by our guards in Maidan Shar town last night. Our guards brought him to Kabul," Shoib Sharifi, director of the Afghan Public Protection Force, said Monday, adding Borghi may have escaped his unidentified captors.

Borghi was taken to Afghanistan's interior ministry and handed over to the French embassy, Radio France Internationale reported.