Abu Sayyaf suspected of shooting fishing boat


Troubled waters: Police officers talking to the fishermen after their rescue in Sabah.- NORMIMIE DIUN / The Star

KOTA KINABALU: Gunmen linked to the Abu Sayyaf might be behind the shooting of a Sabah-registered fishing vessel in the border waters between northern Kudat and the Philippines.

Two of the vessel’s 10 Vietnamese crew sustained gunshot wounds as they evaded the gunmen and fled towards Sabah in the 9am incident on Tuesday, some 22 nautical miles east of Pulau Banggi.

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