SAN FERNANDO CITY, Philippines—Police rescued Saturday a 12-year-old boy who was kidnapped the previous day in Tarlac, with the abductors demanding a ransom of P15 million.
The boy was recovered around 2:30 a.m. in Barangay Gugo in the town of Samal, Bataan.
The police arrested suspected kidnappers Alvin Samar, 33, the alleged leader of the group, and Freddie Aguilar, 29, according to Chief Superintendent Raul Petrasanta, Central Luzon police director.
The boy was abducted at 6:45 a.m. Friday as he was being driven to school by his mother in Barangay Sto. Cristo in Concepcion town.
The boy’s father is a businessman in Tarlac.
The kidnappers contacted the father for the ransom, and had offered to reduce it to P10 million, but the boy was recovered by a police quick-response team with no ransom being paid.
Samar and Aguilar are being held at the regional police headquarters in Camp Olivas in this Pampanga capital, and are facing a kidnap-for-ransom charge.
This was the first kidnap-for-ransom case reported in Central Luzon this year.
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