COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Abu Sayyaf gunmen set free before dawn Tuesday a Tausug public school teacher they had snatched in Sulu over the weekend. "I received information from provincial education officials in Sulu that the kidnapped teacher has been released," said Mitmug. Ubaid, a teacher in the Luuk National High School in Luuk town in Sulu, reportedly told investigators that his abductors were members of an Abu Sayyaf group holding out in Patikul, where many of those abducted by the Abu Sayyaf are kept. Chief Superintendent Graciano Mijares of the Police Regional Office-ARMM said the victim was abducted Saturday afternoon in Barangay Latih in Patikul near Jolo, capital town of Sulu province. DepEd officials in Sulu also reportedly helped pressure Ubaid's captors to let him go.

Source: Philippine Star September 25, 2018 05:37 UTC