Two Italian civilians who had been held hostage in Libya since July have been released, Italy 's Foreign Ministry announced on Friday.
The Italians, Filippo Calcagno and Gino Pollicardo, technicians with Bonatti , an Italian contractor that does engineering and construction work for the oil and gas industries, "are no longer in the hands in their captors, are now under the protection of the Military Council of Sabratha and are in good health," the Foreign Ministry said.
Two other Bonatti employees, Fausto Piani and Salvatore Failla, were probably killed in a firefight between Islamic State fighters and rival militias in Sabratha, the Foreign Ministry said a day earlier.
Last month, two Serbian hostages died in American airstrikes on an Islamic State training camp in western Libya, angering the leaders of the Balkan country.