Free at last: Gao with members of the team that negotiated her release. She is expect ed to ret urn to China today.
KOTA KINABALU: After weeks of quiet negotiations through Malaysian police intermediaries, Chinese tourist Gao Huayun and Filipino hotel worker Marcy Dayawan were freed from terror group Abu Sayyaf’s stronghold of Jolo island in southern Philippines.
The negotiations began soon after Gao, 29, and Dayawan, 40, were abducted from the Singamata Reef Resort near Semporna by five gunmen on April 2.
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