Ransom may have secured release of Briton in Libya

A British man who had been held hostage by militants in Libya has been released, the British Foreign Office said.

David Bolam was freed days after the killing of a British hostage, aid worker Alan Henning, by Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria — the latest in a series of executions that have been posted online.

The British Foreign Office gave no further details of who had held Mr Bolam or how he had been released. British media reported he had been taken hostage in May. In August, he appeared in a video online pleading for his life.