Philippines: Abu Sayyaf Group beheads hostages (pub. May 2, 2007)
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Military officials in the Philippines on April 19, 2007, announced that rebels from the Islamic militant Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) had decapitated seven hostages and then ordered civilians to deliver their severed heads to two army bases on the island of Jolo, in south-western Sulu province. The seven hostages (six Christian construction workers and a 16-year-old Christian boy) were kidnapped at gunpoint during two separate incidents on April 16, near the town of Parang, on Jolo. It was widely reported that the hostages were killed after the company which employed the six construction workers had refused to pay a 5 million peso (US$1.00= 48.053 pesos as at April 16, 2007) ransom for their release.
