Kidnapped Sandakan restaurant manager released


PETALING JAYA:  One of the two Malaysians held by the Abu Sayyaf group has been freed as “tense” discussions continue to secure the freedom of the second hostage. 

Sandakan restaurant manager Thien Nyuk Fun, 50, returned safely back to her Sabah east coast hometown early Monday after nearly six months in captivity. 

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