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Dutch hostage killed while trying to escape from militants in Philippines

Published 05/31/2019, 03:40 PM
Updated 05/31/2019, 03:50 PM
Dutch hostage killed while trying to escape from militants in Philippines

MANILA, May 31 (Reuters) - A Dutch photographer held hostage
by Islamic State-linked militants in the Philippines since 2012
was killed on Friday by his captors when he tried to escape
during a firefight on a remote southern island, the military
said.
Ewold Horn, a wildlife photographer, was shot by his guards
from the Abu Sayyaf group when he tried to flee during a clash
between government troops and the militants, said Brigadier
General Divino Rey Pabayo, commander of a Joint Task Force on
Sulu island.
Six militants were also killed in the firefight in the town
of town of Patikul on Sulu, Pabayo said.
Horn and a fellow photographer, Lorenzo Vinciguerra from
Switzerland, were taken captive as they were sailing off an
island called Tawi Tawi on a bird-watching trip more than seven
years ago and later taken to Sulu. Vinciguerra escaped in 2014.
Also killed during the clash on Friday was Mingayan Sahiron,
the wife of Radullan Sahiron, a senior leader of the Abu Sayyaf,
the military said.
Radullan Sahiron is on a U.S. State Department wanted list
with a $1 million reward for his capture since his involvement
in the kidnapping of U.S. tourists in 2001.
He was believed to have escaped the clash, another military
spokesman said.
The Abu Sayyaf, a small but violent group in the Muslim
south of the largely Catholic Philippines, has been known for
extortion, kidnappings, beheadings and bombings, and has pledged
allegiance to Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
It earlier pledged allegiance to the al Qaeda militant
group.

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