KUALA LUMPUR: “I have no choice but to try to forget that harrowing episode and return to sea to earn a living,” said Tayudin Anjut, 48, who was one of the five Malaysians abducted by Abu Sayyaf militants from their tugboat in 2016 and held hostage for eight months.
The father of two children, aged seven and 14, has been finding it tough after having to sacrifice his former job at sea after the incident, and later earning very little from a food stall he had set up in Taman Ria in Tawau, Sabah.
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