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| Kidnapped Red Cross staffers in Philippines are alive |
| 2009-01-18 |
| The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Saturday that three workers kidnapped on a southern Philippine island were still alive. Spokeswoman Anna Nelson said the three telephoned colleagues on Friday, a day after they were abducted by motorcycle-riding gunmen on southern Jolo island, and said they were unharmed. She gave no other details, but Richard Gordon, head of the Philippine National Red Cross Society, said they had "proof of life, but no demands, so far". The US-trained Philippine troops searching for the hostages in the jungles of Jolo have been hampered by monsoon rains and thick vegetation. |
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