TEHRAN, June 14 (Reuters) - A Japanese tourist who was abducted by bandits in southeastern Iran last October has been freed, Iran's intelligence minister said on Saturday.

"A Japanese tourist who was kidnapped by drug smugglers and armed bandits in the east of the country ... was released," Intelligence Minister Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency. (Reporting by Hossein Jaseb and Zahra Hosseinian; Writing by Fredrik Dahl; Editing by Matthew Tostevin)

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