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Philippine gunmen set free all 47 hostages

At P, Proiperiihut
Tribal gunmen in the southern Philippines yesterday released 47 hostages they had been holding for three days, alter authorities agreed not to arrest them and animals were sacrificed
The ending to the ordeal was a rare piece of good news for the lawless south, following a political massacre last month that left 57 people dead and the beheading of a man last week in an unrelated abduction incident.
The vice governor of Agusan del Sur, where the mass kidnapping took place, told reporters that government negotiators had signed a deal not to arrest the kidnappers, a key factor in ending the stand-off.
"Yes at last! Yahoo!," vice governor Santiago Cane said in a mobile phone text message to the media after he picked up the hostages from the gunmen's hideout In a cleared patch of jungle on a mountaintop.
Cane and other government officials had earlier Sunday met with kidnap leader Ondo Perez in a restaurant to broker a deal after the hostages, aged from 17 to 62, had spent three nights sleeping outside at the gunmen's lair.
In a more bizarre effort to placate the kidnappers, negotiators also Sunday brought in tribal leaders to sacrifice animals as part of a ritual demanded by Perez in overnight talks.
One black pig and three chickens were slaughtered, while 10 boiled eggsand 10bottles
of local wine were offered to the gods.
After the ceremony. Cane took Perez to a local restaurant where he met in private with Governor Valentina Plaza and the deal was struck to give the kidnappers immunity from police action.
All members of (the government) crisis committee signed a document in front of Perez where they stated that all members of the group won'tbe arrested or detained," Cane said.
Instead, the issue will be referred to elders of Perez's Manobo tribe for settlement -- which is allowed under local laws governing indigenous groups in the Philippines.
Perez and his band of gunmen, former communist guerrillas and members of the mountain-dwelling Manobo tribe, raided a school in a small farming village in Mindanao's Agusan valley region on Thursday, taking 75 hostages.
TWenty-eight hostages, including 18 children, were later freed and Perez had said the rest would follow on Sunday. But this was delayed by negotiations over his various demands.
The kidnapping appeared to have been driven by a feud between rival families within the Manobo tribe.
Perez had demanded that Calpito Icuag a senior member of the rival family, have his bodyguards disarmed. He also demanded the arrest of another clan member, Joel Tubay.