Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
An Olympus camera and an ATM card of one of the hostages are found in Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi island. Pictures of Abu Sayyaf leaders are released to media by the Armed Forces of the Philippines. [14] 31 May – The military fails to locate the bandits and hostages despite search and rescue operations in Jolo, Basilan and Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi.
The 2000 Sipadan kidnappings was a hostage crisis in Sabah, Malaysia, and the southern Philippines that began with the seizing of twenty-one hostages from the dive resort island of Sipadan at approximately 6:15 p.m. (UTC +8) on 23 April 2000, by up to six Abu Sayyaf (ASG) bandits. [1]
The battle of Jolo, also referred to as the burning of Jolo or the siege of Jolo, [3] was a military confrontation between the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the government of the Philippines [1] [4] in February 1974 in the municipality of Jolo, in the southern Philippines. [5] [2]
On June 22, 2011, Indian national Biju Kolara Veetil was captured by four armed men while visiting his wife's relatives on the island of Jolo. A$10 million ransom was demanded. Veetil later denied that he was released in August 2012 because he had converted to Islam during captivity. [143] [144]
A band of Moros from the Rio Grande de Mindanao valley, led by a certain Datu Alis, perpetrated the attack. [15] Moro Crater massacre (Battle of Bud Dajo) 10 March 1906: Jolo Island: 600 (figures varied) Battle between American soldiers and Moro rebels lasted for four days. Only seven were captured including three women and four children.
Sapelo Island – a barrier island off the coast of Georgia accessible only by boat or ferry – is home to the Hogg Hammock community of a few dozen full-time residents, according to Explore Georgia.
Hundreds of people were gathered to celebrate the Gullah-Geechee community on Georgia's Sapelo Island on Saturday, Oct. 19, when a ferry dock gangway collapsed, killing at least seven people and ...
The damaged battleship USS California, listing to port after being hit by Japanese aerial torpedoes and bombs, is seen off Ford Island during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, U.S. December 7, 1941.