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by Cecil MORELLA Islamic militants in the Philippines have beheaded a Canadian hostage, sparking fears for more than 20 others they are holding on remote islands, with security forces vowing Tuesday to hunt down the extremists. The man’s head was found Monday dumped outside city hall on Jolo, a mountainous and jungle-clad island in the far south of the Philippines that is a stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf Islamist group. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau […]
(REUTERS) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned on Monday (April 25) the execution of a Canadian hostage by Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines, calling it “an act of cold-blooded murder.” John Ridsdel, 68, a former mining executive, was captured by Islamist militants along with three other people in September 2015 while on vacation on a Philippine island. The Philippine army said a severed head was found on a remote island on Monday, […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic militant group from the southern Philippines notorious for abducting foreigners, beheaded a Canadian hostage on Monday. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was “outraged” by the killing, and authorities were trying to free another Canadian still being held along with a Norwegian man and a Filipina. Here are five facts about Abu Sayyaf: Origins The group is a radical offshoot of a Muslim separatist insurgency that has […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The United States has issued a fresh travel warning for most of the southern Philippines after a surge of kidnappings there, with some victims being snatched from vessels at sea. A State Department advisory on Thursday asked its citizens to defer “non-essential” travel to the Sulu archipelago and the southern tip of the western island of Palawan, and to take “extreme caution” elsewhere in the southern region of Mindanao. It cited “the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The four victims of the Samal Island kidnapping asked their respective governments to pay the 300 million-peso ransom each demanded by the Abu Sayyaf before April 25 or one of them will be executed. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
Video courtesy: COURTESY SITE INTEL GROUP / Reuters (REUTERS) Islamist militants in the Philippines announce a new deadline of April 25 for the execution of three foreign captives and a Filipino, but scale back their ransom demand in a video posted on social media.
PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III is determined to put an end to the threat posed by the Abu Sayyaf Group, Communication Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr. said. “Buong-buo ang determinasyon ng Pangulo at ng pamahalaan na bigyan na ng mariing dagok at mawakasan na itong mga pananakot na ginagawa ng (Abu Sayyaf), dahil batid naman natin ang ating Sandatahang Lakas ay nakapagdagdag na ng kanilang mga kagamitan,” Secretary Coloma told reporters during a recent press briefing […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Gunmen have abducted four Indonesian sailors and shot and wounded one crew member on the high seas off the east coast of Malaysia’s Sabah state, waters where Abu Sayyaf militants are known to operate, a senior police official said Saturday. If the Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf is confirmed to be behind the kidnapping off Borneo, it would be their third such hostage-taking in as many weeks and comes amid a surge […]
ZAMBOANGA CITY, April 14 — President Aquino visited on Wednesday the wake of a soldier who died in combat in Basilan last Saturday assuring his family of government support. The President arrived in Barangay Ayala and met the family of Cpl. Rodelio Bangcairin, one of the casualties of the bloody encounter in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan. Bangcairin, 40, is survived by his wife and two children ages 12 and 3. He is a member of the Philippine […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine militants that want to ally with Islamic State jihadists have beheaded two local hostages, police said Wednesday. Police on the southern island of Mindanao recovered the decapitated corpses of the two men on Tuesday, nine days after they were taken, said the police chief of Lanao del Sur province. “Salvador Hanobas and Jemark Hanobas were beheaded by their abductors,” Senior Superintendent Rustom Duran told reporters by telephone. “Locals brought the […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippine military has killed 25 Islamist guerillas as it presses on with an offensive despite the loss of 18 soldiers, authorities said Tuesday. Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin gave the toll of Abu Sayyaf fighters as fighting in the southern island of Basilan continued. “Twenty-five are dead as of now,” he told reporters, adding that a senior Abu Sayyaf leader called Furuji Indama was among them. “This is of major importance because […]
(Eagle News) UPDATE — Umakyat na sa 25 ang patay sa panig ng rebeldeng grupong Abu Sayyaf (ASG) sa nagpapatuloy pang opensiba ng militar sa Tipo-Tipo, Basilan na una nang nakabakbakan ng 44th Infantry Batallion noong Sabado, Abril 9. Kabilang sa mga malubhang nasugatan ang isa sa mga lider ng ASG na si Furugi Indama na kabilang sa mga target ng operasyon. Kumpirmado naman ang pagkasawi ng Moroccan bomb expert na si Mohammad Khattab, hinihinalang […]
