Pirate siblings flee minutes before security forces arrive to nab them

WANTED: (Top, from left) Nikson and Braun (Bottom, from left) Badong and Kadafi. The notorious Muktadir brothers were involved in several illegal activities including several kidnap-forransom raids in Sabah. Nikson and Badong are on the run.

KOTA KINABALU: Two Muktadir brothers, notorious for staging kidnap-for-ransom raids in Sabah, abandoned their injured sibling in a hospital and fled – minutes before security forces arrived to nab them.

Nikson Muktadir and Badong @ Adzmil Muktadir were in a hospital in Jolo, Philippines with their brother Kadafi Kamsa, who was injured in a motorcycle accident on Saturday afternoon while trying to rob another motorcyclist in Panamao, Sulu. Kadafi had been armed with a handgun.