Abductee recounts escape from gunmen in Jolo island

PORT DICKSON: Divine intervention. That was how Tung Wee Jie, who was held captive for almost nine months in Jolo island, summed up his dramatic escape from armed abductors last Monday.

The bachelor, who was kidnapped together with his cousin Wee Wei, 34, from their family-run bird’s nest “house” in Lahad Datu on Nov 14 last year, spoke of being held in mosquito-infested surroundings and fed only rice and salted fish.