ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 06 Jan) – Military intelligence agents, backed by security forces, arrested before dawn Saturday two Abu Sayyaf militants tagged as behind the kidnapping six years ago of dozens of people in Basilan island in the southern Philippines, officials said.
Officials said government agents disguised as civilians arrested Wakil and Abug Sampang inside a restaurant in Zamboanga City.
“Agents tracked the two Abu Sayyaf terrorists at the Village de Zamboanga restaurant and arrested them,” a regional military spokesman Army Major Eugene Batarra told the Mindanao Examiner.
Batarra did not say if the two wanted men were armed or not, but claimed they had been implicated in the kidnappings of dozens of people after their group barged into a Catholic church and a hospital in Lamitan town in Basilan in June 2001.
“They were involved in many kidnappings in Basilan and have a lot of crimes that they must pay,” he said without elaborating.He said the two were being investigated at an undisclosed military base in Zamboanga City.
Security forces had previously arrested dozens of Abu Sayyaf militants and their affiliates in Zamboanga the past years.Zamboanga City has been previously bombed many times by the Abu Sayyaf. (Mindanao Examiner)
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