Ecuadorean police authorities are announcing the rescue of two kidnapped tourists from the Andes mountain region of the country.
The tourists were a couple, the husband was an Australian citizen and his wife was from Costa Rica and they were abducted in the province of Pichincha and being held for $100,000 ransom. The couple was kidnapped last Thursday.
The only details the police are providing is that they arrested two individuals, one of which had a prior record for staging a kidnapping last year.
