ZAMBOANGA CITY: Private negotiations have started between suspected Abu Sayyaf rebels and the employer of 10 kidnapped Indonesian sailors in southern Philippines.

The rebels demanded $1 million for the safe release of the hostages, who are all crewmembers of the tugboat Brahma 12. They were intercepted on March 26 in the waters off Tawi-Tawi province in the troubled Muslim autonomous region in Mindanao.

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