AFP recovers another abandoned boat in Sulu

From ABS-CBN (Sep 28): AFP recovers another abandoned boat in Sulu

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Sulu Police recovered another abandoned water vessel in Sitio Laud-Laud, Barangay Niangkaan, Omar town in Sulu on Sunday afternoon.

The military recovered a motorboat in a coastal village in Parang town last Friday, as authorities continue to search for three foreigners and a Filipina abducted by armed men on Samal Island last week.

The hostages - Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad, Canadians John Ridsdel and Robert Hall, and Hall's Filipina girlfriend Marites Flor - were snatched by a group of armed men from the Ocean View Resort owned by Sekkingstad.

Brigadier General Alan Arrojado, commander of Joint Task Force Sulu, said the abandoned boat had no signs that would link it to the abduction.

Arrojado said they are also finding it hard to gather information from the residents in the coastal village as to how the water vessel reached the place and who left it with a hole in its hull.

The first recovered motorboat in Parang town also bore a hole in its hull.

Arrojado said they need more evidence and witnesses to prove that the two water vessels were used by the abductors in the Samal Island incident.

He said they have been intensifying their intelligence information using their assets from the ground to verify all sources of information on the whereabouts of the captives.
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