Semporna kidnap: Gunmen island-hopping with abductee


Tight security: General 0perations Force personnel keeping a close watch of the Pom Pom Island resort off Semporna.

SEMPORNA: All indications are that the abducted Taiwanese tourist has been taken across to Philippine waters by Abu Sayyaf-linked gunmen who shot dead her husband in the exclusive Pom Pom Island resort off this east coast town.

Intelligence sources suspect that the gunmen were island-hopping in Tawi Tawi enroute to their Jolo home base, where the Abu Sayyaf group had held other hostages.

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