KOTA KINABALU: A group of eight to 10 heavily armed gunmen, in black uniforms and masks, stormed a tugboat towing a barge in the Sulu Sea and snatched three crewmembers on Sunday night.
The gunmen fled towards one of the many islands in southern Philippines after forcing barge master Indonesian J. E. Walter Sampel, 53, and Malaysians – engineer Toh Chiu Tiong, 56, of Sibu and crane operator Wong Siu Ung of Miri – into a speedboat.
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