He said that based on early investigations, the three men kidnapped were 34-year-old Lorens Koten, 40-year-old Teo Dores Kopong and a 46-year-old identified only as Emanuel. Gunmen kidnapped three Indonesian members of a tugboat crew off Malaysia's eastern state of Sabah, police said on Sunday, the latest in a string of abductions in a region noted for kidnappings by Islamist militants. Four other crew members were left behind by the kidnappers who came in a speedboat. The Abu Sayyaf militant group has beheaded two Canadian nationals recently after its ransom deadlines expired. Abdul Rashid said they are likely to be in the southern Philippines now but did not elaborate.

Source: Thanhnien News July 10, 2016 09:11 UTC