Russian reporters locate captured Serbs

Reports of a Moscow-based daily say they have located the five Serbian citizens imprisoned by Libya's rebels and accused of being "mercenaries and snipers". Komsomolskaya Pravda journalists Alexander Kots and Dmitry Steshin identified the men as Zoran Nikolic, Nedeljko Milanovic, Milorad Junic, Milic Martinovic and Vojislav Niciforovic. Russian reporters locate captured Serbs They are now held "in improvised detention" in a facility where they are forced to sleep on the floor, but their captors are "not beating them and are giving them food", according to the report. The Russian reporters managed to reach the Serbs after they interviewed a rebel leader put in charge of the airport in Tripoli. The five Serbs told them that they were construction workers who arrived in Libya on August 12. They were employed to repair roads by the Serbian-Libyan Zazura company, and promised good pay. They said they were first arrested at a road block when armed men saw their passports and accused them of "aiding Gaddafi", but managed to escape and hide in houses in Tripoli. After that, they paid EUR 500 to a taxi driver in an attempt to reach the Serbian embassy, but were arrested again on another barricade and accused of being "snipers". According to the Russian newspaper's report, the rebels told the Serbians they would be transferred to the town of Zintan in western Libya soon, "and released if everything checks out".

Russian reporters locate captured Serbs

They are now held "in improvised detention" in a facility where they are forced to sleep on the floor, but their captors are "not beating them and are giving them food", according to the report.

The Russian reporters managed to reach the Serbs after they interviewed a rebel leader put in charge of the airport in Tripoli.

The five Serbs told them that they were construction workers who arrived in Libya on August 12. They were employed to repair roads by the Serbian-Libyan Zazura company, and promised good pay.

They said they were first arrested at a road block when armed men saw their passports and accused them of "aiding Gaddafi", but managed to escape and hide in houses in Tripoli.

After that, they paid EUR 500 to a taxi driver in an attempt to reach the Serbian embassy, but were arrested again on another barricade and accused of being "snipers".

According to the Russian newspaper's report, the rebels told the Serbians they would be transferred to the town of Zintan in western Libya soon, "and released if everything checks out".