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Suspected militants kidnap engineer in Philippines

2011-06-04 19:29:11 GMT+7 (ICT)

MANILA (BNO NEWS) -- Suspected militants abducted an engineer of a construction company working on a road project in the restive southern Filipino province of Basilan, the Manila Bulletin reported on Saturday.

Virgilio Fernandez was kidnapped on Friday in Lamitan City by suspected Abu Sayyaf extremists. Fernandez was taken four hours after an employee of the Commission on Elections and his wife were kidnapped by armed men in Lanao del Sur.

Director Felicisimo Khu, chief of the Directorate for Integrated Police Operation (DIPO) in Western Mindanao, said the driver of Fernandez identified one of at least six abductors. Khu said the victim was riding on a mini-dump truck when two motorcycles blocked the road. The motorcycle riders shot the truck's front tire, immobilizing it.

"Then four armed men dragged and took the victim with them," Khu said.

The al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf is a band of self-styled Islamists that has been blamed for some of the worst terrorist attacks in the Philippines and high-profile kidnappings involving foreign hostages.

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