The United States has issued a fresh travel warning for most of southern Philippines after a surge of kidnappings there, with some victims being snatched from vessels at sea.

An advisory issued by the State Department on Thursday (Friday in Manila) asked its citizens to defer “non-essential” travel to the Sulu archipelago and the southern tip of the western island of Palawan, and to take “extreme caution” elsewhere in the southern region of Mindanao.

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