Kozhikode: After a 14-month ordeal, a Keralite man abducted by a terrorist group in the Philippines in June last year, has been freed, his family members said on Friday.
36-year-old Kolaraveettil Biju, working as an operation manager in a garment factory at Kuwait, was abducted allegedly by a terror group from Sulu province in the Philippines while he was at his wife`s house, they said. "Biju telephoned us at about 2.45 AM informing that he has been released by the captors," Biju`s father Narayanan said.
Shybu, brother of Biju, said he had also spoken him a couple of times. "At present Biju is at the police headquarters in Philippines after medical check-up," he said. Biju, who has two children, had last visited his native place Moodadi, about six km from Koilandy in Kozhikode district, in June last year. PTI