ZAMBOANGA CITY: Suspected Abu Sayyaf kidnappers have freed a woman after more than a month in captivity, but the rebel group is still holding captive her husband in the southern Philippine province of Sulu, reports said on Saturday.

It said Claire Salinas was released, but the fate of her husband Bonifacio Salinas is still unknown. The couple was seized outside their house in Patikul town on February 16. Both husband and wife work at the Jolo Mainland Water District.

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