A group dressed as tourists entered the marina 56-year-old Kjartan Sekkingstad was managing on the island of Samal. Sekkingstad, his Filipino girlfriend, and Canadians John Ridsel (68) and Robert Hall (50) were all kidnapped at gunpoint.
“They were dressed as tourists, and behaved like tourists. Among other things, they spoke very good English as well as the local language Tagalog,” Alberto Caber of the local armed forces told Norway's VG newspaper. “They did not cause trouble or any commotion before they pulled out their weapons.”
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