Gunmen have abducted two Indonesian fishermen off Malaysia's eastern Sabah state, a security official said Wednesday, an area where militants from the Abu Sayyaf group have been blamed for a series of kidnappings.
"The incident happened on Saturday off Sandakan", Wan Abdul Bari Abdul Khalid, head of Malaysia's Eastern Sabah Security Command told AFP.
The gunmen also stole the crew's handphones and the GPS systems on the boats. "We do not know who carried out the latest abductions nor do we know where they may have been taken to. But we know it is a form of business for the kidnappers," Abdul Bari added.