From Malaya (Mar 7): Abu Sayyaf releases public school teacher
http://www.malaya.com.ph/business-news/news/abu-sayyaf-releases-public-school-teacher
THE Abu Sayyaf group released an elementary school teacher yesterday morning, or 17 hours after they had snatched the victim in Patikul town in Sulu.
Capt. Ryan Lacuesta, civil military operations officer of the 2nd Marine Brigade, said negotiations led to the release of lrashid Jahang, a teacher from the Tagbili Elementary School in Patikul town.
Jahang was seized by at least 11 Abu Sayyaf men around 4 p.m. Wednesday in barangay Liang, also in Patikul town. The kidnappers, led by one Aljini Mundoc alias Ninok Sapari intercepted Jahang while he was on his way to Jolo town aboard a motorcycle.
Lacuesta said Jahang was freed around 9 a.m. yesterday in barangay Kaday Mampallam in Patikul.
Lacuesta said Jahang’s relatives and local government officials negotiated with the Abu Sayyaf through the relatives of the abductors. “The relatives of the victim know the captors,” he said.
Asked if ransom was paid for the freedom of Jahang, Lacuesta said, “We have no concrete information about that.”
The bandit group is holding a number of hostages in the province, including a couple – both employees of the water district in Jolo town in Sulu who were seized at gunpoint last March 3 in Jolo.
The other kidnap victims in the custody of the group in Sulu are wildlife photographers Dutchman Elwold Horn and Swiss Lorenzo Vinciguerra, who were snatched in Panglima Sugala town in Tawi-tawi in February 2012.
In Basilan Wednesday, security forces arrested an Abu Sayyaf member involved in the 2001 Dos Palmas kidnappings.
Arrested was Kudairik Abdulla alias Abu Saad/Buboy, brother of Bong Abdulla who was among those killed in the 2005 siege at the Metro Manila Rehabilitation Center in Camp Bagong Diwa, Bicutan.
Reports said Kudairik is a son of Abu Sayyaf member Nasirun Abdulla who is a classmate of Khair Mundos, a finance officer of the Abu Sayyaf arrested in 2004 but escaped from the Kidapawan Provincial Jail in 2007.
Mundos also has a $ 500,000 bounty on his head.
Police said Rudairik is married to the niece of Abu Sayyaf leader Radullan Sahiron who was killed in 2008.
Rudairik was captured by the combined government operatives after serving an arrest warrant on him in his lair in Lampinigan Island in Isabela City at around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
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