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PRISTINA (Reuters) - Three workers from the United Nations mission in Kosovo who were detained by Yugoslav authorities say they had unintentionally left the province when the incident happened, a U.N. spokeswoman said Thursday.
``They strayed inadvertently across the line and were detained for not having visas,'' the spokeswoman told Reuters. The U.N. had previously said it believed the workers, who returned to Kosovo late Wednesday, had not left the province when they were held.
The three -- Andrea Telles of Portugal, Australian Gordon Cimiradic and local staff member Dejan Andic -- had not complained of any maltreatment during their detention, the spokeswoman said.
The workers had been scouting for a site to set up a communications repeater in northern Kosovo when they went missing Monday.
The U.N. demanded their immediate release after receiving reports they had been detained by Yugoslav police and taken first to the city of Novi Pazar and then to the town of Kraljevo. Under and agreement between Belgrade and the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force, no Yugoslav or Serb military, paramilitary or police personnel are allowed inside Kosovo.