Kidnapping on the menu

The popular seafood restaurant in Sandakan where two Malaysians were abducted by Filipino gunmen.

What happened in Sandakan on Thursday was the ‘out of the box’ incident that security experts had warned about.

LAST year, in one of the famous seafood restaurants on stilts about 3km along the coastline from Sandakan, the third major town in Sabah, my two colleagues and I discussed how easy it was for Filipino gunmen to kidnap the customers.