UK officials says British diplomats detained in Zimbabwe have been released

British diplomats seized in Zimbabwe on Thursday are safe and no longer under detention, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's spokesman said Thursday.

But the spokesman, Michael Ellam, said British authorities had not yet established how many diplomats had been involved, or the details of the attack.

The United States later announced the U.S. officials who also were detained had been released.

Ellam said, "We can confirm that there has been an incident involving U.K. diplomats. ... The U.K. diplomats are no longer being detained."

Ellam said Britain was in the process of establishing the facts.

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