Vietnamese sailors kidnapped a year ago by Islamist terrorists found decapitated
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PHILIPPINE soldiers have found the beheaded bodies of two Vietnamese sailors abducted a year ago by Islamist militant Abu Sayyaf group near the restive southern island of Basilan, an army spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Six Vietnamese sailors were taken captive after Abu Sayyaf militants attacked their cargo ship in June last year, but one was rescued last month during a combat operation.
The two bodies were retrieved at about 7am (2300 GMT) yesterday near the island’s town of Sumisip, said Captain Jo-Ann Petinglay, the spokesman of the Western Mindanao Command.
“Our troops found the headless bodies after local residents alerted us about the cadavers,” Petinglay told reporters, adding that the heads were found beside the bodies.
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The men had been identified as Hoang Thong and Hoang Va Hai, both crew of the ship MV Royal 16, Petinglay said, adding, “We have informed the Vietnamese embassy in Manila.”
Three more Vietnamese captives still in the hands of the Abu Sayyaf are among 14 foreigners and eight Philippine citizens still held on Basilan and nearby Jolo island, Petinglay said.
Elsewhere in the southern region, intense fighting with a larger group of pro-Islamic State militants who seized Marawi City has dragged on for six weeks, killing more than 400 people, including 85 security forces.
The dead include 39 civilians, but local officials said the number could be higher as intense fighting has denied authorities access to the centre of the city.
Military planes and helicopters have been dropping bombs and firing rockets on militants occupying high-rise buildings in the city’s commercial centre. Marines and army rangers fought militants in house-to-house combat to retake the city.
Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said there is pressure on the military to defeat the Islamist militants before a 60-day period of martial law expires on July 23, a day before the president delivers his state of the nation address in Congress.
“In my estimate, the clearing operations will take at least a week,” he said yesterday, adding that the enemy’s resistance was waning as troops gain control of more strategic positions.
Lorenzana said the Philippines last week sent a military plane to the United States to acquire an unspecified number and type of bombs and rockets intended to replenish the country’s weapons stockpile, depleted by almost daily bombings in Marawi.
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John Tune
6 years ago
Thank God Muslims are peaceful….imagine if they weren’t???
Yes, true Moslems who understand their faith are very peaceful. Expect, of course, toward idolators, polytheists, apostates, Jews, fornicators, dhimmis who fail to pay the jizya, adulterers, sex slaves who fail to put out on demand, other wrong doers, and those who make mischief in the land.
Bullshit!!! ALL Muslims will go Jihad…….Your “faith” is evil & disgusting!!!! Muslims need to be exterminated….I have NO sympathy for ANY Muslims!!!! Your “faith” enables pedophiles,domestic violence & killing of ANY non Muslims……..leave Islam or face the consequences…. 😉
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ConnectingDots
6 years ago
Jihadis 2. Communists 0.
R. Arandas
6 years ago
I hope Vietnam will answer strongly to this brutal crime.
Jeff77450
6 years ago
Pissing off the Vietnamese is not the path to wisdom. The religion of pieces may come to regret this.
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
It is a good thing that America is re-supplying government forces with munitions to destroy the rebels. Do not stop shooting until no one is standing, enough is enough. It was not a good idea to murder Vietnamese citizens, the nation can get rather testy if provoked.
Right, just what I was thinking, but I couldn’t fight the right words to comment. I would bet on the Vietnamese to win.
Jeff Moffitt
6 years ago
Kill em all
bob
6 years ago
hope they piss the. Viets…..will kick their ass
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
I wonder what kind of arms and ammunition muslum terrorist training camps across the USA are stockpiling? Could a Marawi uprising be in the USA’s future?
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