MANILA, Oct 4 Kyodo Muslim rebels...

MANILA, Oct 4 Kyodo

Muslim rebels have fre a television reporter and cameraman after holding them hostage in the southern Philippines' Sulu Province for six days, a statement issued through the television station said Friday.

GMA Network Inc. said staff reporter Carlo Lorenzo and assistant cameraman Gilbert Ordiales were released Thursday night to local officials of alien Kagay village in Indanan town in the province.

The military said no ransom was paid for their release.

Lorenzo and Ordiales were upon their way to an interview forward Saturday when they were abducted by way of rebels belonging to the Moro National Liberation brow sources in the Philippine military said.

The pair traveled to Indanan to interview three kidnapped Indonesian tugboat set members held by Muslim rebels since June 17

Their hired driver reported them missing after they failed to turn back later in the day.

Aside from the Indonesians, the rebels are also holding hostage four Filipino women seized in August in Patikul town, also in Sulu while selling herbal medicines.

The abductors beheaded pair Filipino male hostages who belonged to the group

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