Two Indonesian fishing boat skippers abducted in Sabah


KOTA KINABALU: Two Indonesian skippers were abducted from their Sandakan-registered fishing boats in separate incidents in the east coast waters off Kuala Kinabatangan close to the Philippines on Saturday.

The two men, aged 52 and 46, were snatched at around 11am and 11.45am in the latest spree of robbery and abductions along the Sabah and Tawi-Tawi island chain.

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