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10 September – Three Filipino fishermen was kidnapped in the shores of Pom Pom Island in Sabah, Malaysia. [104] 27 September – One Malaysian boat-skipper was kidnapped from his trawler by seven armed Filipino militant before the group attacking another Indonesian trawler but no kidnapping were committed in the second incident. [105]
26 April – Canadian hostage John Ridsdel, one of four hostages kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf group on Samal Island last September, was beheaded. [10] 27 April – President Benigno Aquino III revealed that the ASG had plotted to kidnap his sister Kris Aquino and Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao. In a statement sent to the media, Aquino said the ...
An American citizen kidnapped from the Dos Palmas Resort, the first foreigner beheaded by the Abu Sayyaf. [8] [9] [10] Jehovah's Witnesses: August 22, 2002: 2 [11] Two Jehovah's Witnesses were kidnapped were beheaded and their heads been dumped into a public market in the southern Philippines. The heads were found in a bag with a note saying ...
Robert Ward Hall (5 November 1949 – 13 June 2016) was a Canadian citizen kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf terrorists in the Philippines on 21 September 2015, and beheaded nine months later near Patikul, Sulu. [1] [2] [3]
Kjartan Sekkingstad (left), one of the people kidnapped by the ASG in Samal Island in 2015, meets with President Rodrigo Duterte (right) after his release from ASG captivity. On September 21, 2015, Canadians Robert Hall and John Ridsdel , as well as Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad, and (Hall's girlfriend) Marites Flor; a Filipino woman, were ...
CNN Films’ chilling crime documentary “Chowchilla” explores one of the strangest mass kidnappings in history.It premieres on Sunday, December 3, at 9 p.m. ET/PT.. In 1976, gunmen stormed a ...
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Police from two countries in the eastern Caribbean are investigating the possible murder of two people believed to be U.S. citizens who owned a catamaran that was hijacked by three fugitives in ...