{"id":8674,"date":"2017-03-05T02:19:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T02:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/philippine-army-finds-body-of-beheaded-german-hostage-jurgen-kantner\/"},"modified":"2017-03-05T02:19:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T02:19:41","slug":"philippine-army-finds-body-of-beheaded-german-hostage-jurgen-kantner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/philippine-army-finds-body-of-beheaded-german-hostage-jurgen-kantner\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine army finds body of beheaded German hostage Jurgen Kantner"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jurgen Kantner and his wife Sabine Merz pictured in Somalia in 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/11E4A\/production\/_92309237_gettyimages-87402870.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  AFP<figcaption>Image caption                                      Jurgen Kantner and his wife Sabine Merz (file picture) were both killed                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">The body of a German hostage beheaded by Islamist militants in the Philippines this week has been recovered, military officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Jurgen Kantner was abducted from his yacht in November. The Abu Sayyaf group said it was behind the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The body was retrieved on the island of Sulu and will be returned to Germany, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kantner&#039;s companion, Sabine Merz, was found shot dead aboard their abandoned yacht in November.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a video was posted showing the beheading of Mr Kantner by a knife-wielding man.<\/p>\n<p>The German foreign ministry said in a statement that it was &quot;deeply shocked by the inhuman and gruesome act&quot;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who are the Abu Sayyaf militants?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Abu Sayyaf is one of the smallest and most violent jihadist groups in the southern Philippines, known for its brutality, including beheadings.<\/p>\n<p>It has pledged allegiance to so-called Islamic State.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Abu Sayyaf<figcaption>Image caption                                      Abu Sayyaf has pledged allegiance to so-called Islamic State                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In recent months it has been behind a series of attacks at sea between the Philippines and Malaysia, with tug boats and fishing vessels intercepted and their crews kidnapped and held for ransom.<\/p>\n<p>According to Abu Sayyaf, the couple were cruising off Malaysia&#039;s Sabah state when the militants intercepted them, the Filipino military say.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kantner, 70, and his companion had been held for 52 days in 2008 by Somali pirates and released after a ransom was paid.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-39170612 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright AFPImage caption Jurgen Kantner and his wife Sabine Merz (file picture) were both killed The body of a German hostage beheaded by Islamist militants in the Philippines this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}