US Celebrate Hostage Escape

World | May 3, 2004, Monday // 00:00
US Celebrate Hostage Escape Friends greet the wife of a US hostage in Iraq who managed to escape. Photo by AFP

The US are celebrating the escape of an American hostage from Iraqi militants. Truck driver Thomas Hamill, 43, somehow managed to slip out of the building where he was kept, and dashed to a US patrol some 65 kilometers from Baghdad. Hamill's wife told reporters that he sounded very well when he called her over the phone shortly after the escape. His kidnapping came in a month of numerous US killings in Iraq.

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