Sino trader, two teachers kidnapped in Mindanao
11/16/2010Three persons, a Filipino-Chinese trader and two public school teachers, were kidnapped during two separate incidents in the provinces of Maguindanao and Basilan, the military said yesterday.
Quoting sketchy reports from the field, acting Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom) chief Maj. Gen. Romeo Lustestica said teachers Cecilia Sosas and Merlyn Yakapin, both teaching at the Baas Elementary School in Lamitan town, were abducted at 11 a.m. yesterday by still unidentified armed men.
Lustestica said the victims were reportedly brought towards Tuburan area, where pursuit operations were subsequently launched by combined police and military forces.
Intensified pursuit operations resulted in the recovery of Yakapin, a native Yakan, at 11:45 a.m.
Lustestica said the manhunt operations are still ongoing to locate Sosas and her captors.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20101116nat7.html
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