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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]
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 ...
10 September – Abu Sayyaf raids Pandanan island near Sipadan and seizes three Malaysians. [7] 16 September – The government troops launch military assault against Abu Sayyaf in Jolo. Two kidnapped French journalists escape during the fighting. [8] 2 October – JMC Evangelist Wilde Almeda and 12 "prayer warriors" were released. [9]
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 ...
“Wicked Game: Devil in the Desert” – the three-part documentary series from ABC News Studios launches Feb. 4 on Hulu and tells the inside story of the events surrounding Michael S. and ...
The parish priest of Lamitan, Cirilo Nacorda, himself a victim of kidnapping before by the Abu Sayyaf, [12] claimed that the military commanders connived with the Abu Sayyaf, allowing the extremists to escape in exchange for part of the ransom paid for the freedom of some of the Dos Palmas hostages.
The country, says the U.N.’s top human rights advocate, just recorded its most violent month in two years after logging more than 1,100 deaths, killings, kidnappings and injuries in January. And ...
Ridsdel was kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines on 21 September 2015, in a raid on Holiday Ocean View Samal Resort, on Samal Island in the southern Philippines. After the gunmen disarmed the resort's security guards, they abducted four people from the resort, the Canadians John Ridsdel and Robert Hall , the resort's Norwegian ...