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ROME — An Italian aid worker held captive in the Philippine jungle for six months by al-Qaeda-linked militants returned home to celebrations in his small Tuscan town Saturday.
Gaunt but smiling, Eugenio Vagni landed in Bologna and continued on to his hometown of Montevarchi, which welcomed him with an open-air party in a piazza.
Abu Sayyaf militants on Jolo Island freed the Red Cross worker last week, ending one of the Philippines’ worst hostage crises in recent years.
