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Three suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf Group have been arrested at Patikul town in Sulu, a military official said Tuesday.
Lt. Col. Harold Cabunoc, head of the Armed Forces' public affairs office, identified two of the suspects as Alsibar Sawadjaan, reportedly a nephew of ASG sub-leader Hatib Sawadjaan, and a certain Asilyn.
Cabunoc said the three were arrested at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, at Sitio Piyok, Barangay Kadday Mampalam, by reconnaissance teams of the 35th Infantry Battalion.
The military received information about a group of ASG men about to leave the town via a pump boat to buy supplies in Jolo, he added.
The three suspects and their twin-engine boat will be turned over to the PNP after the ongoing debriefing on them, he also said.
The AFP intensified its operations in Sulu against the terrorist group in October last year after a series of kidnapping incidents.
Currently, the group is still holding six hostages there, including Ewold Horn, a Dutch wildlife photographer seized in Tawi-Tawi in February 2012.
Horn's companion, Lorenzo Vinciguerra, escaped from their captors in December.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/465958/news/nation/three-abu-sayyaf-bandits-nabbed-in-sulu
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