Philippine kidnappers identified

Philippine police have identified at least three people who may have kidnapped three Red Cross workers last week then turned them over to al Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf gunmen on violent Jolo Island.

Jolo provincial police chief Julasirim Kasim said a policeman identified three of five kidnappers, led by a dismissed jail guard, who stopped a car at gunpoint near Jolo’s provincial capital on Thursday then abducted the International Committee of the Red Cross workers from Switzerland, Italy and the Philippines.