The Philippine army announced that the police managed to rescue three Indonesian hostages and arrest one of their kidnappers belonging to the "Abu Sayyaf" group affiliated with the ISIS terrorist organization, off Basilan Island, located in Tawi-Tawi province, in the south of the country.
General Corlito Finlawn Jr. said - according to the American "ABC News" network, today, Wednesday - that the Philippine authorities were able to liberate the prisoners who were accompanied by the "Abu Sayyaf" terrorists on board a speedboat that had capsized due to crashing waves during pursuit operations. The government launched it against them, and the search was still going on for a fourth prisoner who was also on the boat.
The network indicated that armed men from the "Abu Sayyaf" movement had kidnapped 8 Indonesian men off the shores of Malaysia in January 2020; Where they were working in a Malaysian fishing company.
The "Abu Sayyaf" terrorists escorted the eight prisoners to the shores of "Sulu" province in the southern Philippines, where three prisoners were later freed, while another was killed when he tried to flee from the militants of the terrorist group during clashes with government forces.
It is noteworthy that the terrorist group demands a ransom from the Indonesian prisoners in exchange for their release, but they come from poor fishing families, as well as the Indonesian government’s failure to recognize the ransom policy.
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