Abu Sayyaf Continues To Hold 25 Hostages; President Resists Push For Martial Law
January 24 2017
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana says Abu Sayyaf militants are still holding 25 hostages in the southern Philippines, reports Agence France-Presse.
The minister said on Monday that he did not believe ransoms should be paid to the kidnappers.
Two Indonesian captives were freed last month after a US$400,000 ransom was paid, he said during a conference in Singapore. They two had been seized in June from a tugboat off the southern Philippines.
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