MANILA, Philippines – A school principal abducted recently by suspected Abu Sayyaf members in Sulu province was killed and beheaded by his captors, a military spokesman disclosed today.
The severed head of Gabriel Canizares, 36, was discovered near a gas station in downtown Jolo, Sulu, around 5:30 a.m. today (Nov. 9), according to Army spokesman Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner Jr.
Brawner said Canizares’ beheading might be a retaliation of a recent capture of an Abu Sayyaff leader involved in the beheading of Marines in 2006.
“There has been a demand for ransom but there had been several threats on his (Canizares) life he was kidnapped,” Brawner added.
Around 12 heavily armed men abducted Canizares, a principal of the elementary school in Brgy. Kanague, Patikul town, around 4:20 p.m. last Oct. 19 at Kilometer 7 in Barangay Tanum.
The victim was on his way to Jolo on board a passenger jeep together with other teachers when he was forcibly taken by the bandits.
“He was really pinpointed by the kidnappers because he was the only one taken,” Brawner noted. – By Dennis Carcamo (Philstar News Service, www.philstar.com)
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