Tag: high-seas kidnappings

Indonesia urges action as high-seas kidnappings surge

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) – Indonesia called Monday on Malaysia and the Philippines to do more to secure their “unsafe” waters after the weekend abduction of sailors by suspected Islamist militants. Armed men in a speedboat kidnapped the three sailors late Saturday from a Malaysian-flagged trawler in Malaysian waters off Borneo island and took them towards the strife-torn southern Philippines, officials said. The kidnappers were apparently targeting Indonesian citizens, as three Malaysian sailors and an Indonesian […]