Colombian rebels from the National Liberation Army said they had freed two Peruvians and three Colombians kidnapped last month from a gold mine in the north of the country.
The ELN, as Colombia’s second biggest guerrilla group is known, did not mention a Canadian seized at the same time.
Colombian military and police sources could not immediately confirm the release of the five captives.
The men, all of whom worked at the Snow mine project belonging to Canada’s Braeval, were freed after being told the charges against them, the rebel group said in a statement.