The son of a former barangay (village) official in the municipality of Ampatuan, where the infamous 2009 Maguindanao massacre took place, was abducted by suspected members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), the police said Wednesday.
Three Army soldiers were wounded after they clashed with armed men in Pinukpuk, Kalinga, on Wednesday, police said.
Despite causing tremendous trouble to government authorities, Quezon broadcaster Melinda Jennifer Glifonea (not Glefonea as earlier reported) is not being treated as a suspect in a staged kidnapping but is considered as a media person in distress, according to a police official.
Police have tracked down and arrested one of the suspects in the Sunday morning kidnapping of broadcaster Melinda Jennifer “Jenny” Glefonea, reporter and news anchor of the Edge Radio (103.1-FM) based in Candelaria, her co-anchor Mitch Regondola, said in a text message to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
A female broadcast journalist in Quezon was abducted by unidentified armed in men in Candelaria town predawn on Sunday, police said.
Three women who went missing separately about a decade ago were found Monday in a home just south of downtown and likely had been tied up during years of captivity, said police, who arrested three brothers. One of the women said she had been abducted and told an emergency dispatcher in a frantic call, “I’m free now.”
Cleveland’s police chief says he thinks three women who went missing separately a decade ago were tied up in the house where they were found and had been there since they disappeared.
The mayoral candidate who was reported to have been abducted by the New People’s Army in Baganga town has resurfaced and claimed he was just “invited for some discussions” by the rebel group.
Communist rebels admitted they have in their custody a policeman and a soldier, who went missing in North Cotabato and Compostela Valley last week.
Following the successful escape of two cops seized in Agusan del Sur by suspected members of the New People’s Army, another policeman was abducted in North Cotabato, police said Friday.
The two policemen abducted by suspected members of the New People’s Army in Agusan del Sur escaped from their captors, the Philippine National Police said Friday.
Communist rebels freed four militiamen they had abducted earlier, after failing to find enough cause to put them on trial by a revolutionary court but they continue to hold on to two police officers they had also abducted, officials said.
An 8-year-old child who claims to be a resident of Manila was found wandering on the streets in San Pedro, Laguna province, Monday night, police said.
