{"id":116515,"date":"2017-09-07T01:38:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T05:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=116515"},"modified":"2017-09-07T01:38:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T05:38:30","slug":"philippines-2-indonesians-escape-from-abu-sayyaf-captors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/07\/philippines-2-indonesians-escape-from-abu-sayyaf-captors\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines: 2 Indonesians escape from Abu Sayyaf captors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111748\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/640px-AQMI_Flag_asymmetric.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111748\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/640px-AQMI_Flag_asymmetric.svg_.png\" alt=\"FILE: Two Indonesians who escaped from Abu Sayyaf militants after 10 months of captivity were recovered by Philippine troops Thursday, officials said. (Photo By Yo - Own work, Public Domain)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/640px-AQMI_Flag_asymmetric.svg_.png 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/640px-AQMI_Flag_asymmetric.svg_-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Two Indonesians who escaped from Abu Sayyaf militants after 10 months of captivity were recovered by Philippine troops Thursday, officials said. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=45781807\">(Photo By Yo &#8211; Own work, Public Domain)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Two Indonesians who escaped from Abu Sayyaf militants after 10 months of captivity were recovered by Philippine troops Thursday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Brig. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana said soldiers intercepted the two men who were on board a vehicle in Indanan town in southern Sulu province.<\/p>\n<p>There was no mention of any injuries but they were brought to hospital for medical examination and will also undergo debriefing by the military.<\/p>\n<p>Boat crewmen Sarapuddin Koni and Sawal Maryam were abducted Nov. 19 in waters off Sabah, Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances of their escape were not immediately clear but Sobejana, a military commander in the province, said just before their recovery, troops clashed with 20 Abu Sayyaf gunmen in Talipao, another town of Sulu, leaving 5 militants dead and five soldiers wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The Abu Sayyaf is considered a terrorist organization that has carried out ransom kidnappings, beheadings, bombings and other violence.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Sayyaf gunmen are still holding 17 hostages in Sulu province, 13 of them foreigners \u2014 a Dutch, seven Vietnamese and 5 Indonesians, Sobejana said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Two Indonesians who escaped from Abu Sayyaf militants after 10 months of captivity were recovered by Philippine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":111748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,17],"tags":[254,262],"class_list":["post-116515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","category-news-w","tag-abu-sayyaf","tag-indonesia","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}