Eight Abu Sayyaf members and their families rounded up in raid on mangrove swamp in Sabah's Beaufort district

Hazani showing the list of arrested Filipino nationals and suspected Abu Sayyaf linked terrorists.

KOTA KINABALU: Eight Abu Sayyaf members, their wives and children have been arrested in an operation at a mangrove swamp in Beaufort.

The eight, including two men on the Philippines' wanted list, are suspected to have links to terrorist group Isis, state Police Commissioner Datuk Hazani Ghazali said on Monday (May 10).