The Latest: Freed hostage says family getting medical exams

Joshua Boyle speaks to members of the media at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. Boyle, his wife Caitlin Coleman, and their three children landed in Canada after they were kidnapped in Afghanistan while on a backpacking trip and held hostage for five years by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP) Joshua Boyle speaks to members of the media at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. Boyle, his wife Caitlin Coleman, and their three children landed in Canada after they were kidnapped in Afghanistan while on a backpacking trip and held hostage for five years by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

By Associated Press October 14, 2017 2 min read

TORONTO (AP) – The Latest on the U.S.-Canadian family rescued from captivity (all times local):

9:55 a.m.

Former hostage Joshua Boyle says full medical exams are being arranged for him and his family on their first full day back in Canada after being rescued from their captors in Afghanistan.

Boyle emailed The Associated Press a new statement Saturday morning. He landed in Canada late Friday with his American wife, Caitlan Coleman, and three young children.

He wrote they have reached the first true “home” his children have ever known after spending most of Friday asking if each subsequent airport they passed through was their new house.