
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / May 3, 2013) – Gunmen have seized Friday a Muslim man working for a private construction firm in the southern Filipino province of Sulu, authorities said.
The victim, Awan Usman, was driving a concrete mixer truck when he was flagged down by armed men in the town of Patikul.
The motive of the abduction is still unknown and no group claimed responsibility for this.
It was not immediately whether the abduction was connected to a family feud or clan war, or for ransom. (Mindanao Examiner)