BEIRUT (AFP) - A Lebanese hostage was released in Iraq , officials said, just as an Arabic television station showed footage of two more Lebanese taken captive in the violence-wracked country.

The charge d'affaires at the Lebanese embassy in Baghdad, Hassan Hijazi, informed the foreign ministry that Imad Bassila was free and "in good health," a ministry official who did not wish to be identified told AFP.

Bassila was abducted last week from the Baghdad offices of Lebanese engineering firm Sufan in front of six Iraqi colleagues before being blindfolded and taken to an unknown destination, a diplomatic source that did not want to be named told AFP.

His abduction had not been previously reported.

News of the release came as a militant Islamist group in Iraq announced it was holding 10 hostages, including two Lebanese employees of an electrical equipment firm, Al-Jazeera television said.

The Doha-based channel said the kidnappers had not made any demands so far.

Three other Lebanese were reported missing, along with their Iraqi driver, on September 18 while working for a Baghdad-based travel agency.

A lawyer for the company named the missing as the agency's owner Fadi Munir Yassin, as well as employees Aram Nalbandian and Sharbel Karam al-Hajj.

A week earlier, two Lebanese men and a woman were killed in Baghdad in a failed abduction operation.

Diplomatic sources said Thursday that some 30 Lebanese have been kidnapped in Iraq, in some cases for ransom, and subsequently released. One Lebanese hostage has been beheaded.