Freed UK Soldiers Head for Kuwait

World | June 25, 2004, Friday // 00:00
Freed UK Soldiers Head for Kuwait Freed British Royal Marines leave the British Embassy in Tehran toward the Mehrabad airport to leave Iran. Photo by AFP

Eight British soldiers freed here after being arrested for straying into Iranian waters, left Tehran on a plane bound for Kuwait. The soldiers will head for their military bases in Iraq from there. The six Royal Marines and two navy personnel were arrested on Monday after their patrol boats strayed into Iranian waters on the Shatt al-Arab, a waterway that demarcates the border between Iran and British-occupied southern Iraq.

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