Kidnapped Filipino tends to make daring escape

When he noticed some fishermen, he took his chance, diving deep and hoping his armed captors wouldn't shoot. The Filipino wildlife photographer, seized with two European travelers throughout a bird-observing trip, escaped on Wednesday and spoke of his ordeal yesterday.
The visitors Mr Sarenas was guiding, Dutch Ewold Horn and Swiss Lorenzo Vinciguerra, continue being lacking.
"I am even now traumatised," he said. "I have guilt and concern for the welfare of my companions."
Mr Sarenas mentioned he, Mr Horn and Mr Vinciguerra arrived in Tawi-Tawi, the Philippines' southernmost province, on Sunday in search of the Sulu hornbill, stated to be the most endangered hornbill in the world.

Tawi-Tawi is famed for virgin beach locations cheap soccer scarves surrounded by crystal blue waters but, like the most of the restive southern Philippines, it is undeveloped for tourism because of years of violence, like ransom kidnappings, bomb attacks and fighting in between troops and Muslim rebels.
Following shelling out three days in a mountain forest, the three ended up heading again to the provincial money of Bongao by boat on Wednesday when 5 rifle-toting gunmen on yet another boat fired warning photographs and intercepted them, Sarenas mentioned.
They ended up transferred to one more boat, then a 3rd boat. About two hrs later on, about two.30pm nearby time on Wednesday, Mr Sarenas determined to jump about immediately after he realised they had been cheap soccer scarves becoming taken north, in the route of Jolo Island in the adjacent Sulu archipelago, the stronghold of the brutal Abu Sayyaf group.
"My assumption was we have been heading to Jolo. That is why I turned afraid because my life would be worthless the moment I get to Jolo," he said, recalling cheap soccer scarves reports of the militants' atrocities, including beheadings of hostages.
He said he educated Mr Horn and Mr Vinciguerra of his plan.
"They stated, 'Go. Very good luck'," he said.
He acquired his chance when they had been about 700 metres from the shore. He observed 3 little boats with fishermen. He explained he gambled that the gunmen wouldn't shoot him with so several witnesses close to.
He taken out a tarpaulin cover about him and his companions. An M16 rifle fitted with a grenade launcher was lying on the boat's floor he held the muzzle to avoid the weapon from becoming pointed at him. Then he explained he rapidly rolled above to the facet of the boat.
"I made a deep dive because I was afraid they would shoot me," mentioned Mr Sarenas, a triathlete.
The kidnappers did not fireplace and still left him in the waters in which fishermen shortly rescued him. He was brought to a village in Languyan township and later on to a police station.
Mr Sarenas mentioned Mr Vinciguerra worked as a taxidermist for a museum in Switzerland and Mr Horn as a freelance taxidermist.
"Some of the birds they have mounted they wanted to see in the wild," Mr Sarenas stated.
Muslim insurgents have been preventing for minority self-rule in the predominantly Christian nation's south, and the Abu Sayyaf is the most violent team.
The militants have been keeping Australian Warren Rodwell abducted in December, as nicely as a Japanese and a Malaysian.
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