Quebec Woman Who Went Missing in Africa Has Been Released: Report

Quebec Woman Who Went Missing in Africa Has Been Released: Report
The Islamist police patrol in the streets of Gao, northern Mali, on July 16, 2012. Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images
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A Canadian woman and her Italian traveling companion who were suspected to have been abducted in West Africa 15 months ago have been released.

Edith Blais, 34 of Sherbrooke, Quebec, and Luca Tacchetto 30, had been traveling by car in southwestern Burkina Faso, heading to Toga to do volunteer work when they vanished around Dec. 15, 2018.