JAKARTA: Ten Indonesian sailors held hostage by Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants returned home on Sunday (May 1) after being freed in the southern Philippines, less than a week after the gunmen beheaded a Canadian captive.
About five weeks after being abducted, the 10 tugboat crew turned up outside the house of the provincial governor on the remote Philippine island of Jolo.
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