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NBC News Crew Escape Captors in Syria

Freed in a gunfight

Reason Staff | 12.18.2012 7:56 AM

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Five days after they were seized, bound and blindfolded by abductors in Syria, NBC reporter Richard Engel and his crew have escaped unharmed after being freed in a gunfight at a checkpoint, NBC said Tuesday.

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