After being ambushed, kidnapped and held captive in Syria for five days, NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and his production crew were freed after a firefight between the kidnappers and a rebel group and were safely escorted back to Turkey Tuesday morning, according to an NBC News report.Engel and his team were kidnapped Thursday morning shortly after entering Syria, according to an NBC News report. In a live TV appearance with his crew from Antakya, Turkey, on Tuesday, Engel told the Today show that they were driving with Syrian rebels in what they believed was a rebel-controlled area, when more than a dozen gunmen wearing ski masks jumped out of the bushes. “They dragged us out of the car. They had a container truck positioned, waiting by the side of the road,” Engel said. One of the rebels they were traveling with was shot and killed during the confrontation, he said.
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