SULU – Philippine troops were reported to have killed one of
the Abu Sayyaf’s most notorious sub-leaders behind the brutal murders of
kidnapped foreigners and Filipinos in a special operation in the southern
island of Sulu.
Military reports said members of the Philippine Marine Special
Operations Group killed Alhabsi Misaya late Friday in the village of Silangkan
in Parang town, a known stronghold of the militant group affiliated with the
Islamic State.
Misaya’s body was brought to a military base in Jolo town. The
Western Mindanao Command have not release any statement about Misaya’s killing,
but one report branded the daring military operation as an “entrapment to
neutralize” one of the Abu Sayyaf’s notorious executioners.
Misaya was also linked to the spate of terrorism in southern
Philippines and cross-border ransom kidnappings in Sabah in Malaysia and attacks
on cargo ships off Tawi-Tawi province. He was also behind the beheading of
Canadians John Ridsdel and Robert Hall in 2016 and seven Filipino workers in
Sulu, one of 5 provinces under the Muslim autonomous region.
Both
Canadians were kidnapped by 10 gunmen from the resort island of Samal in Davao
del Norte province on September 2015 along with Norwegian man Kjartan
Sekkingstad and his Filipina girlfriend, Maritess Flor. Both Sekkingstad and
Flor had been freed in exchange for huge ransom payoffs. (With a report from
Ely Dumaboc.)
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