Military ops hampering Then’s release


One of the kidnapped victim an Electrical consultant based in Cambodia, Bernard Then, 39. (May15)(mugshot goes with story slug kkmoceanking)

KOTA KINABALU: Ongoing military operations in the southern Philippine island of Jolo are making life very difficult for the remaining Malaysian hostage Bernard Then Ted Fen (pic).

Jolo-based anti-kidnapping activist Prof Octavio Dinampo said Abu Sayyaf gunmen guarding the 39-year-old hostage were moving him around constantly among the mountainous jungle hideouts on the island.

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