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IN THE NEWS
AUG 25, 2000

FIVE FOUND MURDERED AFTER REBELS ABDUCT TRUCKERS

PARENTS OF PINAY IN CRASH OFF TO BAHRAIN

R.P. IN BIND AFTER KIDNAPPER'S BAGMEN CAUGHT RED-HANDED

EXTREMISTS KILL POLICE INFORMER'S DAUGHTER

LAKAS DENIES EAVESDROPPING ON ERAP

SHABU WORTH P730-M SEIZED

FIRST LADY OPENS FILIPINO FILM FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK

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EXTREMISTS KILL POLICE  INFORMER'S DAUGHTER 

MANILA, Aug. 25  -- Suspected Abu Sayyaf members have
killed the three-year-old daughter of a police informer.

A group of 10 strafed the house of Said Usman in Isabela town on Basilan island before dawn on Aug. 24, killing his daughter Namar and wounding his wife and brother-in-law, a police report said. 

It is suspected the group are members of the Abu Sayyaf Muslim extremist group. No arrests have been made. 

Usman is said to be a police informer, who had helped
authorities in their crackdown on the extremist group which has
been blamed for a series of bombings and kidnappings in Southern Philippines. 

The attack came after police in Zamboanga City arrested two Abu Sayyaf members who were trying to convert some $240,000 into pesos at a local bank. The money is believed to be part of a huge ransom raised by the rebel group in its kidnapping activities. 

Abu Sayyaf comrades in nearby Jolo island, meawhile, are still
holding hostage five French, two Finns, two South Africans, a
Filipino, two Germans, a Franco-Lebanese woman and a group of Filipino preachers and residents. 

Most of the foreign hostages were taken from the Malaysian
resort of Sipadan on April 23 and taken across the border by boat to Jolo. 

The bandits had freed nine Malaysians, a German woman and a
Filipino reportedly after huge ransoms were paid, but later seized other hostages including a crew of three from the France-2 television. 

The foreign hostages were to have been freed last Aug. 19 but a misunderstanding between the kidnap leaders and a Libyan mediator forced a last-minute cancellation. 

Government negotiators have said the rebels have agreed to
release the hostages in batches in a renegotiated agreement
brokered by the Philippine government and Libya, which has taken an active role in trying to end the crisis. (SNS)

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