MANILA, June 17 (Xinhua) -- The three hostages held by bandits in the southern Philippines are expected to be released within the next few hours, a police chief said on Tuesday night. Negotiations are still ongoing but the crisis may end very soon, said Avelino Razon Jr. UGG Ashur Boots 5760, chief of the Philippine National Police, said in an interview aired by local television. Meanwhile, Philippine TV network GMA News reported that a medical team has been placed on alert in the event that the kidnapped would be released. Broadcast journalist Cecilia Drilon and two of her cameramen with the ABS-CBN Corporation, and their guide cheap ugg, Mindanao State University Professor Octavio Dinampo, were kidnapped by alleged members of the violent militant group Abu Sayyaf on June 8 in a township of the Philippines' Sulu province. One of the cameramen, Angelo Valderama ugg bailey boots, had been released safe last week. Also in the interview, Razon maintained that no one was giving in to the kidnappers' ransom demands. Earlier, the kidnappers extended indefinitely a Tuesday noon deadline for the payment of a 15-million-peso (337,079 U.S. dollars) ransom for the kidnapped. The Philippine government on Monday approved a recommendation to put up an award of 500,000 pesos (11 chocolate ugg boots,236 dollars) for information leading to the arrest of each of the alleged kidnappers, who are identified by the police as Sulayman Patta alias Amah Ma'as and Abu Haris and Walid alias Tuan Wals. Other kidnappers have not been named. It was reported that the kidnappers had threatened to behead the kidnapped. However Ugg short, they changed their minds and promised not to hurt Drilon ugg classic short, Encarnacion and Professor Dinampo. The 350-member Abu Sayyaf relies on ransoms to fund its operations. As the country's most deadly armed group, Abu Sayyaf has been blamed for a series of kidnappings and attacks, including the worst militant attack in the Philippines, the bombing of a ferry near Manila Bay in 2004 that killed more than 100 people.

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