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Subject: AFP : Myanmar gunmen release Thai minister

  Myanmar gunmen release Thai minister after helicopter flight to border

    BANGKOK, Oct 2 (AFP) - Myanmar gunmen have released a Thai minister who
offered himself in exchange for nearly 40 hostages held captive for over 24
hours at the Myanmar embassy here, Thailand's Interior Minister said Saturday.
    Deputy Foreign Minister Sukhumbhand Paribatra and another Thai official
are now returning to Bangkok aboard a helicopter, which the five gunmen 
used to
fly to the Thai-Myanmar border, said Interior Minister Sanan Kachonprasart.
    Sanan said the gunmen fled after landing in the Thai border province of
Ratchaburi.

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