{UAH} Philippine troops recover body of beheaded German hostage

Ewdard Irundrua,

Do you remember this German hostage? You complained a few days ago when I posted a video of his beheading. This is what you wrote:

Herrn Mulindwa Edward <mulindwa@look.ca>	28 Feb (5 days ago)
to ugandans-at-he.

"George Okello

 

Are you sure this man was killed? I would be very careful in posting such sensitive issues to sensitive families, for you simply have no single iota that he was beheaded, yet you decided to go public with it.

 

Trust me my  friend we all feed on the same source of information sir."

 

EM"

Mr Irundrua, please now  post here your own information as you claim to know more about the activities of Islamic terrorists worldwide. Please note the Philippines army recovered both the body and the head of Mr Kanter. His bloodied head was put in a carrier bag normally used by butchers, and hang on a tree branch near a catholic church. 

Thank You,

Bobby

Philippine troops recover body of beheaded German hostage

Jurgen Kantner with his wife Sabine Merz, who was fatally shot during the kidnapping CREDIT: AFP

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•  Reuters 

5 MARCH 2017 • 4:47AM

Philippine soldiers have found the remains of a German man who was beheaded by Islamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf militants last week, a military official said late on Saturday,

Both the head and body of Jurgen Kantner were recovered while the troops were conducting combat, search and retrieval operations in Indanan town in the remote southern province of Sulu, colonel Cirilito Sobejana told reporters.

Kantner's remains would be kept in a hospital morgue in Sulu while documents were being prepared to transport the body, said Sobejana, commander of the Joint Task Force Sulu.

The Philippines and Germany have condemned Kantner's killing by the militants who posted a video of the murder after a deadline for a $780,000 (£635,000) ransom passed.

Philippine marines dig as they look for the body of Jurgen Kantner in Sulu province CREDIT: AFP

The 70-year-old German, who had been held on the small southern island of Jolo, had appealed for help twice in short video messages, saying he would be killed if a ransom was not paid.

His wife Sabine Merz, 59, was fatally shot during the attack when she fought back.

President Rodrigo Duterte has apologised to Germany for failing to save Kantner while insisting that ransoms should not be paid.

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The Philippine military has vowed to bring Kantner's killers to justice and to continue operations to free other hostages held by Abu Sayyaf, which had raised tens of millions of dollars from piracy and ransom payments.

Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said the government "will leave no stone unturned in squarely addressing the evils of extremism and plain banditry".

"Rest assured these mindless acts will not go unpunished," he said in statement. 

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