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Monday, June 09, 2003
RP turn over remains of kidnap victim to Indonesia (11:30 am)
ZAMBOANGA -- Philippine authorities have recovered the remains of an Indonesian sailor, kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf guerrillas, and turned them over to the Indonesian consulate Monday, the military said.
Indonesian vice consul Johannes Manginsella received the remains of Muntu Jacobus Winowaton, one of four Indonesian sailors abducted a year ago in the southern Philippines, from the military command in the troubled region.
The body was exhumed last week from a grave near the town of Patikul on Jolo island a week earlier after a number Filipino witnesses, themselves former captives of the Abu Sayyaf, led the military to the burial site, a military statement said.
Winowaton captained a three-member crew aboard a coal barge that was making a delivery to a Filipino customer when they were abducted at sea off the southern island of Basilan on June 11 last year.
The three other sailors managed to escape and informed Filipino authorities their captain was dead.
"Indonesian officials, led by Vice Consul Manginsela on behalf of the Indonesian government, are thankful for all the tireless efforts of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in freeing the Indonesian hostages from their ASG abductors and for recovering the remains of Winowaton," the statement said. AFP
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