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Abu Sayyaf releases Indonesian captive
 [BenarNews] Abu Sayyaf rebels freed an Indonesian captive after kidnapping the sailor at sea off eastern Malaysia and taking him to the southern Philippines four months ago. Samsul Saguni and another Indonesian had been seized from a fishing boat in waters off Sabah, in Malaysian Borneo, and brought to Jolo, an island in the far south of the Philippines.Saguni was freed Tuesday and retrieved by the military and local officials somewhere on the outskirts of Maimbung, a town on Jolo island. Regional military spokesman Gerry Besana said, “He was brought to the residence of Tan, and, upon checking his health by our physicians, it turned out he is physically healthy.” Saguni and his companion, Usman Yunos, were on a fishing vessel when Abu Sayyaf militants boarded the boat and abducted them at gunpoint on Sept. 11, 2018. Yunos managed to escape from his captors in mid-December. Indonesian foreign ministry official Lalu Muhammad Iqbal confirmed that Saguni was the man shown in an online video that went viral earlier this month. In the video, a shirtless man, whose hands are bound behind his back, kneels in a pit and pleads for his life as gunmen stand above him. Posted by: ryuge 2019-01-20 |
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