Philippine hostages make appeal
 Jolo is known to be a base for the Abu Sayyaf group |
Three aid workers taken hostage in the Philippines have made a radio appeal for talks to secure their release.
The hostages from the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) said they were unharmed and in regular contact with local ICRC officials.
But they told the radio station they did not know what their captors wanted.
The three were seized by armed gunmen on 15 January on Jolo Island in the southern Philippines where they were working on a sanitation project.
"[I appeal] to the government and to the ICRC to do their best there so that this ordeal will be solved. Please try to... deal with them to try to find a way to pull us out," said one of the hostages Eugenio Vagni, 62, of Italy said on-air.
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