Samal kidnap victims location undetermined: Philippine military

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Wednesday said they still cannot determine the location of the victims of the Sept. 21 Samal kidnapping, although two suspects were arrested on Sunday in southern Philippine city of Davao.

"It's hard to second guess but sometimes the presence of participants or accessory to a crime may be arrested in certain specific area but it will not necessarily pinpoint to where the hostages area is," said AFP spokesman Restituto Padilla.

"It could be rouse or it could be intentional that they divided themselves into small groups or groups of two individuals while the hostages were kept somewhere else," Padilla told a press briefing in Camp Aguinaldo.

The suspects -- Bandajar Dangin Adona and Tirso Orquisa Lugnasin -- were nabbed by operatives of the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Tibungco, Davao City by virtue of an arrest warrant.

Padilla said authorities are still uncertain on the whereabouts of the victims who were seized from the posh Holiday Oceanview resort in Samal Island.

The victims were the resort's Norwegian manager, Kjartan Sekkingstad, Canadians John Ridsdel and Robert Hall, and Hall's Filipino girlfriend Marites Flor.

"The information that has been circling around on the location of the hostages, to date, remains unconfirmed and invalidated until certain information that we are looking for exist," the official said. Endi