DAVAO CITY – Philippine authorities are holding two of 11 gunmen who kidnapped three foreigners and a Filipino woman from an upscale resort in Samal Island off the southern province of Davao del Norte, the official Philippines News Agency reported.
It said the announcement of the arrest of the two men was made by Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte following a security briefing by the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP).
“I was privy to that. I was invited to the briefing to listen,” the news agency quoted Duterte as telling journalists on Monday in Davao del Sur’s Santa Cruz town.
Duterte, who was among those helping secure the safe release of Canadians John Ridsdel and Robert Hall; and Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad, and Filipina Maritess Flor, identified one of the captured suspects as Bandahar Adona alias Banon.
Adona was positively identified from the video taken by security cameras during the September 21 kidnappings on Holiday Oceanview Samal Resort.
Duterte did not give details of the arrests of the two men or whether they are members of the Abu Sayyaf which the military claimed was behind the daring raid on the resort. But the arrests came after ISAFP traced calls made by the kidnappers from their cell phones in Davao City.
He said the hostages were allegedly taken by boat to Sulu, one of five provinces under the Muslim autonomous region, but police and military cannot confirm Duterte’s report that the holidaymakers are being held by the Abu Sayyaf there. (Mindanao Examiner)
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