ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Nov. 13, 2012) – At least a dozen gunmen barged into a house late Tuesday and abducted a government teacher and her child in the southern Filipino port city of Zamboanga, reports said.
Radio station dxRZ Radyo Agong said security forces are tracking down Flordeliza Ongchua, who is a teacher in Labuan school, and her still unidentified child.
No individual or group claimed responsibility for the latest abduction that occurred in the village of Labuan.
Police and military officials were not immediately available to make a statement about the incident, but kidnappings-for-ransom is not uncommon in Zamboanga City.
In 2009, suspected Abu Sayyaf rebels also kidnapped three government teachers – Freires Quizon, Janette delos Reyes and Rafael Mayorada – in Zamboanga City. And three more teachers – Jocelyn Enriquez, Jocelyn Inion and Noime Mande – in the town of Naga in the neighboring province of Zamboanga Sibugay also in the same year. (Mindanao Examiner)
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