MANILA: A Philippine court has found guilty and sentenced to death 17 suspected members of the Muslim militant group Abu Sayyaf for the kidnapping of four people from a hospital in the southern island of Basilan three years ago.
Only 13 of the militants were present when the sentences were read out before a tightly secured courtroom in Basilan yesterday. The other four accused escaped from a detention centre last April.
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