Carian mengenai topik Abu Sayyaf group

The security level in Sabah's East Coast will be upped including mobilising a commando team from the Special Action Unit (UTK) in tackling issues involving the Abu Sayyaf militant group.

The two Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) members shot dead at an oil palm plantation in Pulau Timbang here at the break of dawn this morning had planned to kidnap oil palm plantation owners for ransom.

Hazani said the detainees were handed over to the Philippine authorities at 8.30 am in the waters bordering Malaysia and the Philippines.

Eight Filipinos who are members of the Abu Sayyaf group have been arrested in a special operation in Taman Sri Arjuna, Beaufort, said Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hazani Ghazali.

A 32-year-old Indonesian fisherman known as Laa Baa who was kidnapped with four others by the Abu Sayyaf group in Sabah waters in January, was killed in Patikul, Sulu, Philippines yesterday.

The attack happened in Jolo in Muslim-majority Sulu, where government-backed security forces have long been fighting the Abu Sayyaf group.

Two of the five Malaysians who were abducted by the Abu Sayyaf group in Philippines in July last year are expected to return at the KL International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang tonight.

Members of the IS-linked Abu Sayyaf group captured the Indonesian and six other Indonesian seamen from their boat as it was passing through waters off southern Philippine islands on June 23.

Unknown men dropped off the 10 tugboat crewmen at the home of provincial governor Abdusakur Tan Jnr on the remote island of Jolo.

Overview of the Abu Sayyaf group: their origins, methods, and recent victims.

In the video released Thursday, the victims from Canada, Norway and the Philippines say they will be killed if the ransom is not paid.

Police will apply to the Philippine authorities for the extradition of two suspects in the kidnap-cum-murder of Malaysian citizen Bernard Then.

The government have yet to receive confirmation on allegations that a Malaysian was beheaded by the Abu Sayyaf group in Mindanao, yesterday.

After almost six months in captivity, Ocean King Seafood Restaurant manager, Thien Nyuk Fun, has been released by the Abu Sayyaf group.

A South Korean who was kidnapped by Muslim extremists in the southern Philippines in January has been found dead, police and military officials said Sunday.

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