PAGADIAN, Philippines: An extremely gaunt but smiling Australian Warren Rodwell walked free on Saturday after 15 months being held captive by Islamic militants in the lawless southern Philippines.
Rodwell, a former soldier aged 54, joked with policemen and a journalist who took video footage of him for AFP at Pagadian city police station on Mindanao island, shortly after his kidnappers released him early on Saturday morning.
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