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Photos Of Kidnapped Journalist Reuniting With Son Will Melt Your Heart

LOOK: Kidnapped Journalist Sees Son For First Time
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Deputy Media Editor, The Huffington Post

El Mundo correspondent Javier Espinosa is greeted by his son as he arrives at the military airbase in Torrejon de Ardoz, near Madrid, on March 30, 2014. Two Spanish journalists taken hostage in Syria by an Al-Qaeda-linked group walked free after six months in captivity and were heading back to Spain today, their friends and colleagues said. Espinosa and Vilanova were seized on September 16 as they tried to cross the Syrian border to Turkey, the latest of scores of journalists captured while covering Syria's civil war. AFP PHOTO / POOL / PACO CAMPOS (Photo credit should read PACO CAMPOS/AFP/Getty Images)
El Mundo correspondent Javier Espinosa is greeted by his son as he arrives at the military airbase in Torrejon de Ardoz, near Madrid, on March 30, 2014. Two Spanish journalists taken hostage in Syria by an Al-Qaeda-linked group walked free after six months in captivity and were heading back to Spain today, their friends and colleagues said. Espinosa and Vilanova were seized on September 16 as they tried to cross the Syrian border to Turkey, the latest of scores of journalists captured while covering Syria's civil war. AFP PHOTO / POOL / PACO CAMPOS (Photo credit should read PACO CAMPOS/AFP/Getty Images)

Two Spanish journalists were finally free to go home on Sunday after being held captive for more than six months in Syria.

El Mundo reporter Javier Espinosa and freelance photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova were taken hostage in Syria by an al Qaeda-linked group in September. The two arrived home safe in Spain at a military airbase near Madrid.

These photographs taken as Espinosa walked off the plane show the emotional moment as he reunited with his son for the first time since he was taken:

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(via CARLOS GARCIA POZO/AFP/Getty Images)

Espinosa's partner described his release as "pure happiness":

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