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Philippines hostage crisis closer to resolution

4 more captives freed
JOLO. Philippines. July 21 : Muslim extremists freed four Malaysian captives early today, raising hopes for a peaceful resolution to a three-month-old international hostage crisis in (he southern Philippines, reports AFP
Abu Sayyaf leader Radu Ian Sajiron handed over Vincent Kwong. Lee Hock Liong. Francis Masangkin and Balakrishnan Nair to government emissaries and a Malaysian representative at a beach near the town of Patikul at dawn, leaving 33 fieople from sLx nations still leld at gunpoint.
Government officials earlier wrongly identified one of the four as Fong Yin Ken. and his airline pilot father Fong Shan Fha O' w jo Jp^o fron^ nearby Zmnb^aug^ city to meet.him. o/ily to by disappqtale0- B turned out the Fong son remained at the Abu Sayy.it
camp.
“It Is a big step forward and I'm very pleased about the efforts of Secretary Roberto Aventajado (the hostage negotiator) and hope he will be more successful in the near future in bringing the hostage crisis to an end." Malaysian ambassador lo Manila Arshad Hussein told AFP
The four Malaysians, all scrulfy and long-haired, were shod in slippers and carried sacks over their backs when they arrived at an army base in Jolo.
Tin very happy," Kwong told rc|xirters. "It's so very good and I'm very happy."
Asked where his other colleagues were. Kwong said: I don’t know,"
His colleague Fong's father was ^b^vuc^st on learning that h|s son was not among those herd.
"Bad. bad." he told reporters.
I realised my son is not among them."
He earlier told reporters in nearby Zamboanga city that he has telephoned his family to break the erroneous news of his son's release.
Sabah's former chief minister. Yong Teck Lee, who accompanied (Tie hostages' relatives to the southern Philippines, told reporters he was "optimistic" (here would be "more releases in a short while."
The four were among nine Malaysians three Gentians, two Filipinos, two Finns, two French nationals, two South Africans and a Lebanese kid-napped from the Malaysian re--..>rl <4 Sipadan off Sabah on \piil .’3
SA)It res'close to the negoti.i tjoiik said the group raised foui inflKon dollars in ransom front the eight released hostages.