GHAZNI, AFGHANISTAN: Two South Korean women freed by Afghanistan's Taliban began on Tuesday to make the long journey home, where their families spoke of their joy but worried over the fate of 19 other hostages.
Pale, tearful and clutching Muslim headscarves, the women were handed over to international aid agency officials near the southern Afghan town of Ghazni late on Monday and sped off to waiting South Korean representatives.
The pair -- Kim Gin-A, 32, and Kim Kyung-Ja, 37 -- were at a safe place, a South Korean embassy spokesman said under cover of anonymity. Details for their departure from Afghanistan had not been finalised.
A South Korean foreign ministry official who did not want to be named said they would have a medical check-up at the Bagram military base north of Kabul before being flown home.
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