Military says the workers were warned against
entering conflict zones without government escorts
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Suspected Abu Sayyaf rebels abducted Thursday three
members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in
the island of Sulu, officials said.
The three—Swiss Andreas Notter, Italian
Eugenio Vagni and Filipino Jean Lacaba—were seized near Patikul
town, said Gov. Sakur Tan of Sulu. “I have ordered police and
military forces to pursue the abductors. There will be no let-up in
this operation,” he said.
Sen. Richard Gordon, chairman of the Philippine National Red Cross
(PNRC), urged Thursday the immediate release of three Red Cross
officials who were abducted in Sulu earlier in the day.
LEGAZPI CITY: Gov. Elisa Olga Kho of Masbate rejected the public
apology of the Bicol Regional Party Committee of the New People’s
Army in Bicol on Thursday.
CABANATUAN CITY: The police declared solved the case of an education
student from a state-run university who alleged to have been
abducted by a gang who extracted internal organs from humans.
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