On Sunday, the Filipino relative of a kidnapped American boy escaped from Abu Sayyaf rebels, who've held them for four months in the southern Philippines.Romnick Jakaria fled to freedom when special army forces got near an Abu Sayyaf hide-out near Sumisip town in Basilan province and startled the jihadis. Jakaria, 19 years old, is at an army outpost undergoing questioning.
On July 12, Jakaria and his Filipino-American aunt, Gerfa Yeatts Lunsmann, and her 14-year-old American son were kidnapped while on a vacation on an island near southern Zamboanga city.
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