15 year old girl kidnapped in Butuan City

MANILA, Philippines—A fifteen-year-old girl was abducted by an unidentified suspect in Butuan City before dawn Wednesday, a police spokesperson said.

Philippine National Police spokesman Chief Superintendent Agrimero Cruz Jr. said that Butuan City police are hunting down a suspect who kidnapped a 15-year-old girl in Butuan City at around 2 a.m.

Butuan City police initially tried to go after the suspect who was able to escape.

Cruz said that authorities were conducting checkpoints in all possible escape routes.

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