A day after the Philippine military announced the recovery
of a headless body believed that of Malaysian hostage Bernard Then, security
officials on Friday said they erred in the report and now claimed that troops
were still searching for his cadaver.
The 39-year old Malaysian man from Sarawak in Sabah was
beheaded by the Abu Sayyaf in the southern Filipino town of Indanan Manila
Bernard’s bloodied head was recovered the same night
abandoned in the town of Jolo
Captain Roy Trinidad, a military spokesman, previously
confirmed that troops recovered the headless cadaver from a shallow grave in
Indanan’s Kagay village. “Authorities are determining if the severed head and
the recovered body are that of Malaysian national Bernard Then,” he said in
previous statement to journalists.
On Friday, Trinidad said “no headless cadaver was recovered
last November 18 in the village
of Kagay
Bernard was kidnapped by armed rebels in May this year along
with the 50-year old Thien Nyuk Fun, manager of Ocean King Restaurant in Sandakan town in Sabah, and spirited them to southern Philippines
Thien was freed by rebels just this month in what Malaysian
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi claimed was the result
of successful negotiations with her captors.
The Abu Sayyaf is still holding several foreign hostages,
including two Canadians, a Norwegian, an Italian and Filipinos kidnapped from
different provinces in southern Philippines
http://mindanaoexaminer.com/philippine-military-erred-in-report-now-says-cadaver-of-malaysian-hostage-still-missing/
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