A Swiss hostage kidnapped nearly three years ago by the Abu Sayyaf Islamist group has escaped his captors in the Philippines, military officials say.
Lorenzo Vinciguerra fled as government troops attacked the jungle camp where he was being held on the remote island of Jolo and was wounded as he fled.
He was later found by army troops and taken to hospital.
Mr Vinciguerra, 49, was one of two European bird watchers captured by the militants in the southern Philipines.
He was seized in Tawi Tawi province in February 2012.
Abu Sayyaf has been active since the early 1990s.
It is a small but violent Islamist militant group which operates in the southern Philippines.
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