Reliving the nightmare: Wilma and Alan having a meal at a military camp in Sulu island. — AFP
Zamboanga: A British man and his wife rescued this week from militant captors in the Philippines’ south say they were chained and threatened with beheading if they didn’t deliver a ransom.
The couple, shaken but unharmed, told their nearly two-month ordeal to reporters after escaping during a firefight on Monday between Philippine troops and the Islamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf group.
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