BAMAKO (AFP) - A ransom of 15 million euros ($18.4 million) was paid for three European hostages to the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, a spokesman for the Mali Islamist group claimed Thursday.
"We got 15 million euros for the release of the three hostages and we also secured the release of a mujahedeen imprisoned by Mauritania" in return for freeing an Italian and two Spanish aid workers, Walid Abu Sarhaoui told AFP.
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