The three Malaysian journalists who were abducted yesterday outside Baghdad have been released unharmed while two doctors who were injured in the same ambush are under treatment in a local hospital.

The three New Straits Times photographer Annuar Hashim, The Sun reporter Terrence Fernandez and RTM cameraman Omar Salleh were abducted by a group of armed men.

The group also shot two doctors with the Malaysian Medical Relief Society (Mercy).

Bernama quoted Zukri Valenteno Ali, coordinator of the Joint Media Team Malaysia (JMTM) sent to cover the Iraq war, as saying that the journalists were travelling with the volunteers for a story o­n medical aid when the incident took place.