Kidnap victims ‘monitored’ in Indanan

ZAMBOANGA CITY—Gunmen have taken three kidnapped Red Cross workers together with the son of a Chinese businessman abducted earlier to a known stronghold of Abu Sayyaf bandits on Jolo Island, a Muslim civilian leader said Sunday.

Octavio Dinampo, a professor at Mindanao State University, said his sources in the separatist Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) had told him that the four kidnapped victims had been “monitored” to be in the village of Tubig Dakulag in Indanan town.

The three workers of the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)—Swiss national Andreas Notter, Italian Eugenio Vagni and Filipino Mary Jean Lacaba—were kidnapped at the provincial capitol in Jolo town on Jan. 15. (Julie Alipala, Ed General)