Tag: German national

Lorenzana: The Abu Sayyaf ‘will feel the wrath of the entire Filipino nation’

  (Eagle News) –Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana assured the family of the slain Jurgen Kantner on Thursday that the military was going after the “animals” who beheaded him “with the full force of the law.” In his statement, Lorenzana refused to name the Abu Sayyaf as the one responsible for the beheading of the German national in Indanan, Sulu, saying they were merely “bandits whose name no longer deserves to be mentioned.” “We strongly denounce […]

AFP: No letup in military ops vs Abu Sayyaf

(Eagle News) — There will be no letup in military offensives against the Abu Sayyaf. The Armed Forces of the Philippines issued this statement on Tuesday, a day after a  German national was confirmed beheaded by the terrorist group in Sulu. “There will be no letup in our operations until we have rescued all the remaining kidnap victims and we have negated  the Abu Sayyaf capability who continue to fight government and perpetrate their terrorist activities,” Col. Edgard […]

Dead German in drifting yacht had heart attack: Philippines police

  MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — A German man whose mummified body was found on a yacht adrift off the southern Philippines had died of a heart attack about a week earlier, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday. Police earlier named the victim based on documents found on the yacht on Friday as Manfred Fritz Bajorat of Germany, but they have yet to establish where he had sailed from or where he was heading. “The […]