Iraq reporter's interpreter 'freed'

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The pair, both employees of US television network CBS, were seized by gunmen on Sunday near their hotel in the centre of Basra.

Hopes of a release were raised on Wednesday morning when a spokesman for radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced a deal had been struck with captors.

Iraqi news agency Aswat al-Iraq (Voice of Iraq) said that the interpreter had been freed and the Briton is expected to be handed over by Thursday morning.

The kidnapped Briton is a photojournalist with experience of covering conflicts around the world. He was one of only a few freelance photographers in Baghdad to record its fall in early 2003.

He has worked for publications including The Sunday Telegraph, The New York Times and The Financial Times.