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Three United Nations relief workers and four staff members of Doctors Without Borders who were abducted during a gunbattle on Tuesday in Mogadishu were released unharmed, a spokesman for the United Nations said in New York.

The gunbattles came on a day when American troops held a series of ceremonies to mark the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which are indirectly responsible for their presence here.

There was a heavy gunbattle at about 2.30am on Saturday, according to locals in Barawe, about 60 miles south of the capital Mogadishu.

The Justice Department announced today the indictment of five leaders of the militant Islamic group Abu Sayyaf for kidnappings that led to the death of an American missionary in a gunbattle in the Philippines on June 7.

Israeli military officials say they are investigating the source of fire that wounded the soldier, but that there was no gunbattle between troops like the one that took place on Monday near Ramallah in the West Bank.

South Korea has raised from the waters of the Yellow Sea its bullet-riddled patrol boat that was sunk in a gunbattle with North Korean forces on June 29.

The gruesome search has riveted the nation's attention since Monday, when a heavily armed police squad surrounded a building that authorities called the group's Istanbul headquarters and seized it after a spectacular gunbattle that was broadcast live on television.

The Americans opened fire, triggering a gunbattle in which at least one militant triggered his suicide vest.

The military recovered the soldiers after a gunbattle near the town of Bongabong on Mindoro island that left one guerrilla from the New People's Army dead, military spokesmen here said.

Following that boat's retreat, McIntosh opened fire with the cannons on the bluff, beginning a gunbattle that lasted for four hours.

In other violence on Sunday, Afghan and Nato troops fought an overnight gunbattle with Taliban insurgents and called in an air strike on the building where the fighters were holed up.