Abu Sayyaf kills Canadian

epa05362967 An image made available on 14 June 2016 shows a member of the Philippine National Police Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) holding a plastic bag containing a recovered decapitated human head in the town of Jolo, Sulu island, Philippines, 13 June 2016. A Filipino Philippine Islamist extremist group Abu Sayyaf has killed Canadian hostage Robert Hall, who was abducted from a seaside resort in the southern Philippines in September, according to Filemon Tan Junior, spokesman of Armed Forces of the Philippines Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom). Hall, the second Canadian captive was apparently executed in the same mountainous jungle hideout in Sulu Island as fellow Calgarian, John Ridsdel, who was decapitated in late April. EPA/BEN HAJAN

ZAMBOANGA CITY: The Abu Sayyaf killed another one of its hostages in Sulu yesterday afternoon.

This after the 3pm deadline for the payment of a 600 million Philippine pesos (RM53mil) ransom lapsed.