A handout picture released by the Philippine Army Jolo Command shows police investigators conducting initial identification on the body of Korean kidnap victim Nwi Seong Hong in Jolo, Sulu island, southern Philippines on Nov 1.
MANILA: A small but violent al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in the Philippines has demanded a billion pesos (RM91mil) each for three men and a woman captured at a beach resort in September, one of the victims said in a video.
The men, two Canadians and a Norwegian, and the Filipino woman were shown in a video clip posted on Twitter crouching on the ground with masked men wielding machetes standing over them and threatening to kill them.
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