An Irish journalist was set free on Thursday one day after he was kidnapped by gunmen in Baghdad, interior ministry sources said.

Rory Carroll, a 33-year-old reporter for the British newspaper The Guardian, was taken away by unidentified gunmen in Baghdad's eastern Sadr City on Wednesday afternoon after he conducted an interview with a victim of former president Saddam Hussein's regime.

The Guardian newspaper confirmed Carroll, who has been in Iraq for nine months, was released unharmed.

Source: Xinhua