Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says that all five staff members abducted by an armed group in war-torn northern Syria in early January have now been released.<br /><br />Known for sending doctors to conflict zones, MSF has not revealed the identity of those who were held but says that three were freed on April 4 and the remaining two on Wednesday.<br /><br />All are physically well, according to the group which has given no details about the circumstances of their detention or release.<br /><br />It says that for security reasons it has now had to close a hospital and two medical centres in the Jabal Akkrad area of Syria’s northwestern Latakia province, depriving some 150,000 people in the immediate area of its help.
