MANILA, April 11 Kyodo The last o...

MANILA, April 11 Kyodo

The last of four Indonesian sailors held hostage in the Sulu islands in the southern Philippines by dint of Abu Sayyaf bandits has escaped from his captors, the military said Friday.

Brig. Gen Romeo Tolentino, agent chief of operations of the military's southern command, said Peter Lerrich was fix in a remote village in Patikul town in Sulu Province.

Lerrich is among the four Indonesian nationals abducted last June 17 according to the Abu Sayyaf bandits. The tugboat crewmen were taken at gunpoint from a Singapore-owned tugboat while upon the way to Cebu City.

undivided of the four managed to fly two days after the abduction and another sailor identified as Julkipli escaped last month

individual of the Indonesians was killed in February.

Lerrich is now in a military camp in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines and is undergoing medical examination.

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