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Grief and fear after Jolo beheadings

Seven killed in road accident

President Gloria Arroyo presented a wrong Abu Sayyaf leader, who police said was the mastermind behind the kidnapping of 21 mostly Asian and European holidaymakers from Malaysia's Sipadan resort in 2000, military and rebel sources said yesterday.

A Filipino amy commander yesterday said no ransom was paid by either the family or their television network for the release of a reporter and a cameraman kidnapped by gunmen in the southern Sulu island.

A senior Abu Sayyaf leader wanted by the U.S. for killing two American hostages in southern Philippines has sent emissaries to the military to negotiate his surrender, a top army commander said yesterday.

Scores of women have cried foul and complained of harassment by private security guards who were recently posted to man department stores and shops in this southern port city.

Abu Sayyaf beheads Basilan man

The military will continue their offensive against separatist rebels despite an offer of a unilateral truce by the guerrillas, President Gloria Arroyo's spokesman said yesterday.

A Filipino diver, who was among the 21 European and Asian holiday-makers kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf group from the resort island of Sipadan, Malaysia, on April 23, 2000, has escaped from his captors and is now in military custody, said senior army officials yesterday.

Soldier, MILF rebel killed in gunfight

Gunmen believed to be members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) bombed a vital power station of the government-run National Power Corporation (Napocor) in Mindanao, cutting off electricity to the entire island for several hours, officials said yesterday.

Abu Sayyaf rebels abduct trader in south