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Google map of Bongao, Tawi-Tawi ZAMBOANGA CITY - Authorities have rescued over the weekend eight victims of human trafficking in Tawi-Tawi province, a top police official said Monday. Col. Richard Verceles, operations chief of the Area Police Command-Western Mindanao, said the victims were rescued around 8 p.m. Saturday at the port of Bongao, the capital town of Tawi-Tawi. Verceles said the victims, all of legal age, are from the provinces of Zamboanga del Norte with three; two each from this city and Zamboanga del Sur; and one from Zamboanga Sibugay. The Bongao municipal inter-agency committee against trafficking rescued the victims after receiving a tip that a commercial ferry docked at its port will be transporting a group of people to Malaysia via Tawi-Tawi. Verceles said the victims admitted that they were recruited to work in Malaysia without the necessary documents. They were turned over to the Ministry of Social Welfare and Development Office in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region