4.2 Progress of Hijacking in Semporna, Malaysia

The China tourist who was hijacked was Gao Huayun, a Shanghai girl, while the female hotel employee who was taken away was Filipino. The employee was wearing a yellow shirt when he was taken away.

2065438+On April 6, 2004, Mohammad Ment, director of the eastern security zone in Sabah, said: The family members of the China female tourists who were kidnapped on the evening of April 2, 20 14 have received a phone call from the kidnappers. A representative of the kidnappers said on the phone that the hostages were safe, but made no demands.

On April 14, 10, Malaysian media quoted the country's Interior Minister Hamid as saying that the kidnappers offered a ransom of 36.4 million Malaysian ringgit, about 70140,000 yuan. Malaysia has sent police and negotiators to negotiate with the kidnappers' middlemen with a view to reducing the ransom amount. Later, different sources said that the ransom demanded by the kidnappers was as high as 500 million pesos (about 696 1 000 yuan).

The police have detained 15 foreigners to investigate clues related to the kidnapping case. This 15 people all work in the incident hotel, and no one has a legal work certificate. The police previously said that there were suspected ghosts in the hotel to help armed men kidnap. Malaysian media said that if the kidnappers were arrested and convicted, according to the laws of the country, the only penalty was the death penalty.

The Consulate General of China in Kuching said that it had not received any information about the ransom demand.

201April 15 Malaysian police said that the authorities had obtained the latest photos of the Shanghai female tourist kidnapped by armed elements, so they confirmed that she was still alive. The Malaysian military sent officials to the southern Philippines to cooperate with the Philippines in dealing with the hostage crisis.

Mohamad Mende, director of the East Sabah Special Security Command Area (ESSCOM), said on June 4 that he had sent officials to the Philippines to discuss with the Philippine military about the rescue of hostages, but not the ransom.

Gao Huayun, a 29-year-old female tourist from China, is still alive, and the police obtained a recent photo of her in the Philippines. But he won't publish this photo. It is understood that the recent photos of Gao Huayun obtained by the police show that she stood there in a red and white long-sleeved shirt with tears in her eyes and a gloomy expression. Her left hand is also tied to her waist with cloth. He said that the police believed that ROCHE MAZET Dayawan, a 40-year-old Filipino female employee who was kidnapped, was also safe, but there was not much information about her except that she was kidnapped in the Philippines. However, he did not want to disclose the progress of the case, only stressed that the police are still actively investigating and know the latest situation of the hostages.