Villagers find missing American sailor in Luzon
Asian Economic News, June 11, 2001
MANILA, June 7 Kyodo
Philippine villagers have found a U.S. Navy officer missing since Tuesday after communist rebels attacked the group of U.S. servicemen he was with while climbing Mt. Pinatubo in central Luzon, a military report said Thursday.
The report said Lt. Scott Washburn was found by village officials around 11 p.m. Wednesday and brought to military authorities in Clark, a former U.S. air force base in Pampanga.
A statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Manila said that Washburn was part of a group of five U.S. sailors, escorted by local guides and three members of the Philippine navy, who were fired upon while descending the famous volcano in Zambales Province.
Washburn was separated from the original group just prior to the attack by eight assailants claiming to be members of the Maoist New People's Army.
The rebels later released the Americans, but Washburn was not among them.
The sailors are in the Philippines as part of an annual 11-day Philippine -U.S. exercise known as Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) 2001, which started Friday at Subic Bay near Olongapo city, 126 km north of Manila.
Mt. Pinatubo, located about 95 km north of Manila, has become a popular tourist trek since it spectacularly erupted in 1991, killing more than 800 people in one of the century's largest eruptions.
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