ZAMBOANGA CITY (Zamboanga Journal / 12 Aug) -- Four suspected Abu Sayyaf militants and a police officer were killed in a clash Saturday with security forces in the southern island of Jolo, reports said.
The fighting brokeout when security forces tried to rescue a 58-year old matriarch in Jolo. The woman, Jacky Selvin, was stabbed and later died, reports said.
The woman and her son Jeffrey Selvin were kidnapped July 27 outside their house at Gandasuli Road in Jolo. The man was decapitated and his head found earlier in the day in front of the police headquarters in downtown Jolo.
The Abu Sayyaf had carried high-profile kidnappings in the past, including a daring raid on the Malaysian resort island of Sipadan in 2000 where it seized 21 Asian and European holiday-makers.
It also kidnapped seized 17 Filipinos and three U.S. citizens on the posh Dos Palmas resort in the central Philippine island of Palawan a year later where militants killed and beheaded two of their American hostages.
Washington offered as much as $5 million bounty for known Abu Sayyaf leaders, including Khadaffy Janjalani. President Gloria Arroyo also put up P100 million rewards for the capture of the group's leaders and their members dead or alive.
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