Tag: Philippine kidnap ordeal

Indonesian sailors home after Philippine kidnap ordeal

by Olivia Rondonuwu JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Ten Indonesian sailors held hostage by Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants returned home Sunday after being freed in the southern Philippines, less than a week after the gunmen beheaded a Canadian captive. About five weeks after being abducted, the 10 tugboat crew turned up outside the house of the provincial governor on the remote Philippine island of Jolo. They flew back to Jakarta later the same day, arriving on […]