By KUNA,
London : A journalist kidnapped by a group associated with the Taliban is back in the UK Tuesday after a three month ordeal, his family said. Freelance reporter Sean Langan was working for the commercial TV station Channel 4s programme “Dispatches” when he was kidnapped on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
A spokesman for the British Foreign Office confirmed that Langan was “safe and well” after his release last Saturday night.
Langan’s family, that lives in London, said he arrived back in the UK last night.
“We are absolutely thrilled that Sean is back in the UK and free. We can’t thank Channel 4 enough for helping us,” a member of his family said.
“We have negotiated with his kidnappers for the last couple of weeks. Before that we were unaware of his kidnapping.” “He is as well as can be expected given his ordeal,” he added.
Langan has worked on three previous films for Channel 4 and has also worked for the BBC.