U.N. staff member freed in Myanmar

YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar U.N. staff member was freed along with two of her family members and her driver on Thursday, a day after being arrested during the junta's crackdown on anti-government protests, a U.N. source said.

Mynt Ngwe Mon, 38, who works with the U.N. Development Program, was picked up from her house in the middle of Wednesday night along with her husband, Than Tun and brother-in-law Aung Kyaw Sint, a U.N. official said.

Her driver Tin Win was also detained later in the morning at her residence, the official said on condition of anonymity.

The crackdown has continued despite a mission by U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari to persuade junta chief Than Shwe to relax his grip and open talks with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whom Gambari met twice.

Gambari was to brief U.N. Security Council members on his talks on Friday after seeing U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.