ZAMBOANGA CITY – Philippine troops have dug up Saturday the body of a Canadian man beheaded by the Abu Sayyaf in a shallow grave in the southern province of Sulu, the military said.
It said villagers tipped off the military on the location of the grave in Kamuntayan in Talipao town where the headless body of Robert Hall was found. It was handed over to the police for further forensic examination.
Hall was kidnapped along with fellow Canadian John Ridsdel and Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad and Filipina Maritess Flor on a resort in Samal Island in Davao del Norte province and brought to Sulu.
His head was recovered in Jolo town on June 13 the day the Abu Sayyaf decapitated him for failing to raise P300 million ransom.
Ridsdel was also beheaded after his family failed to pay P300 million ransom to the Abu Sayyaf which pledged allegiance with the Islamic State, while Flor had been released following a series of negotiations by former Sulu Vice Governor Sakur Tan on orders from President Rodrigo Duterte.
Military operations were continuing against the Abu Sayyaf which is also holding 7 Indonesian sailors it kidnapped recently off Tawi-Tawi province. The group is still holding Sekkingstad, a Dutch wildlife photographer and a Japanese treasure hunter in Sulu. (Mindanao Examiner)
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