MANILA, Philippines ? The Philippine National Police claimed that international drug rings have resorted to abducting individuals to force them to work as drug mules.

PNP deputy chief for operations Jefferson Soriano said on Wednesday that agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) recently rescued Jayson Ordinario, 22, a man who was abducted and then forced to swallow capsules containing heroine for delivery to Macau.

?I believe the PNP has broken the backbone of another international drug syndicate,? Soriano told a press conference at the PNP headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City.

Ordinario said he and his wife had just left their house and were walking along Tuazon Street in Balic-balic, Manila to attend a Mass in Quiapo Church, last Sunday, when two men alighted from a taxi and forced him to board the vehicle.

?Magsisimba po sana kami ng misis ko punta Quiapo and then may dumating pong taxi may bumaba pong dalawang lalaki tapos bigla po akong kinuha [My wife and I were suppose to go to Quiapo and then a taxi arrived and two men went down and grabbed me],? Ordinario said.

The victim said the men blindfolded him and took him to an undisclosed place somewhere in Quiapo.

At gunpoint, Ordinario said the pair ordered him to swallow 34 capsule-like plastic canisters the size of 12-gauge shotgun bullets.

?Na pag di ko daw ginawa yan, pag di ko daw nilunok yan may mangyayaring masama sa akin [They said that if I didn?t do it, if I didn?t swallow the drug, something bad will happen to me],? he added.

?Matagal ng modus operandi ito pero yung iba is willing victim so ginagawang mules ang mga yan [This has been a long-time modus operandi but the others are willing victims so they are being made mules],? Soriano said, adding that the amount were ?enough to kill him.?

Soriano said each canister contained 11 grams of heroin worth P77,000.

He said CIDG agents spotted Ordinario in a taxi near the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) in Pasay City on Monday, after the victim?s parents sought police assistance to locate him.

Soriano said the victim?s abductors, a certain Jhun Ennumeng and Elpidio Gonzales, did not resist arrest when they were accosted inside the taxi.

He said the suspects could be members of an international drug syndicate ?tasked? to recruit a drug courier to transport the illegal drugs to Macau.

?This is a high-grade heroin based on the lab test of our crime laboratory. It?s unusual because based on our info, in the long time that we have been working on illegal drugs, we have not monitored any local using heroin,? Soriano said.

?This only proves that the Philippines is being used as a transshipment point of syndicates to smuggle illegal drugs to China and other Asian countries,? Soriano told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Soriano said that based on information, the heroin was brought to the country from Malaysia as part of the transshipment cargo for other destinations. Ordinario was supposed to transport the drugs to China.