TAWI-TAWI – Malaysian authorities said 2 Indonesian fishing boat skippers in separate attacks in Sabah near the Philippine border of Tawi-Tawi.
The two men were seized by armed men on Saturday and they were immediately reported to the Eastern Sabah Security Command, but efforts to find and rescue the skippers failed.
The official Bernama News Agency also reported that the gunmen were believed to be based in Tawi-Tawi, one of 5 provinces under the troubled Muslim autonomous region in Mindanao in southern Philippines.
It said the gunmen spared other fishermen and only targeted the skippers. It was not immediately known whether the abductions were carried out by the Abu Sayyaf or not, but the notorious rebel group tied to the Islamic State is still holding about a dozen Malaysian and Indonesian sailors kidnapped this year off Sabah and are being held in southern Philippines.
There was no immediate statement from the Philippine military or the provincial police in Tawi-Tawi. (Mindanao Examiner)
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