Remains Identified as Those of U.S. Hostage
From Times Wire Reports
Skeletal remains found on a remote southern Philippine island belong to a California man abducted in May by Muslim extremists who later claimed to have beheaded him, the U.S. Embassy said.
An embassy statement said laboratory exams identified the remains, discovered last week, as those of Corona resident Guillermo Sobero.
Members of the Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf abducted Sobero, two other Americans and 17 Filipinos on May 27.
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