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TWO American Mormon missionaries were freed after five days in captivity in southern Russia yesterday, but were then told by its governor to leave the area.
"In the near future all missionaries, including Mormons, will be asked to find another place for their activities," Dmitry Akyatskov, governor of the Saratov region 500 miles south-east of Moscow, said on television.
The missionaries, Andrew Lee Propst, aged 20, from Oregon and Travis Robert Tuttle, also 20, from Arizona, were abducted from a Mormon church in Saratov last Thursday. Yesterday they were driven to the outskirts of the town and set free.