'Abu Sayyaf beheads German '

manila - The Filipino armed forces make every effort for a group of hostages held in the south of the island republic by the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf. This said army spokesman General Restituto Padilla Sunday. Media reported that a septuagenarian German hostage, Jürgen Kantner would be killed by the group.

Abu Sayyaf Kantner would have decapitated when negotiating the payment of the equivalent of approximately 575 000 for his release were unsuccessful or were completed for the deadline set by the group on Sunday. A negotiator and presidential adviser, Jesus Dureza, said Sunday that he had heard that Kantner was decapitated some unconfirmed reports. That would have happened on the island of Jolo.

Kantner was in November to sailing with his wife Sabine Merz when he was attacked and abducted in waters about 1,500 kilometers south of Manila. His wife is taking slain. a band of pirates in Somalia, the two sailors were more than fifty days hostages in 2008 and would then be released in exchange for a huge amount of their sailboat.

The profiling itself as Islamic terrorist group Abu Sayyaf holding dozens of hostages, including the Dutchman Ewold Horn who was kidnapped by the group in the southern Philippines in February 2012. Abu Sayyaf claims to be part of the Islamic State. In 2014, the group overcame a couple Germans sailing on their yacht. The pair was released and claimed the Abu Sayyaf was because 4.8 million ransom was paid.