1.   In Japan, a Foreign Ministry official told reporters Shimura was freed unhurt but had been admitted to a hospital for medical tests, the Kyodo news agency reported.

2.   The Interfax news agency reported all of the remaining hostages were freed unhurt.

3.   The hostage was freed unhurt.

4.   The hostages -- three men and three women -- were freed unhurt after their night-long ordeal in the bank at Neuenstein in southwestern Germany.