File picture of an armed Abu Sayyaf member. - The Star/ANN
MANILA (Xinhua): Philippine security forces have rescued a Filipino doctor who was abducted by several gunmen of the extremist group Abu Sayyaf in remote Sulu province in the southern Philippines last month, a military general said on Wednesday (March 25).
Lieutenant General Cirilito Sobejana, commander of the Armed Forces of the Philippines' Western Mindanao Command in Zamboanga City, said troops found the victim in a village near Indanan town in Sulu province around 7.30pm local time on Tuesday after he was freed.
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