KOTA KINABALU- For 50-year-old widow Thien Nyuk Fun (pic), her nearly six-month ordeal in the hands of the Abu Sayyaf abductors is over.All she wants is to be at home in Sandakan, Sabah and rest.
The Ocean King Seafood Restaurant manager is now looking forward
to a quiet life to recover from her worst nightmare under the hands of the
notorious gunmen who kept her on the run in the jungle terrains of Jolo island
in southern Philippines
Freedom came close to midnight Sunday when Abu Sayyaf gunmen
handed over Thien to Filipino and Malaysian negotiators working on the hostage
families' behalf. Thien was brought back by speedboat to Sandakan
"She just wants to rest and be with the family,"
said the relatives, adding that Thien and her two sons and elderly mother are
now happily reunited.Thien is unlikely to speak publicly about her ordeal as
efforts are continuing to get the remaining hostage Sarawakian Bernard Then,
39, out of Jolo.
It is not known why Then was not released along with Thien though sources indicate the situation among the Abu Sayyaf groups was tensing up the final leg of negotiations that lasted over a week.
It is not uncommon for other bandit groups to try and "abduct" hostages being released by their main captors. Both Thien and Then were abducted by kidnap-for-ransom groups from the Ocean Seafood Restaurant in
They later handed over the victims to an Abu Sayyaf leader Indang Susukan. According to
Negotiators for the two families had hoped to get both of the Malaysian hostages out together but it is understood that negotiations had hit a bump when other Abu Sayyaf groups had complicated efforts to secure Then's freedom.
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