ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Dec. 10, 2012) – The 3rd year student of the Ateneo de Zamboanga University who was reported missing has been reunited with her family.
Reports said the 19-year old Reniel Belmonte returned home after spending days in the house of a friend. It was not immediately known why Belmonte did not tell her family about her “escapade” that left her parents and relatives, including her classmates and friends, worried.
Her disappearance prompted many of her friends and concerned people to launch a campaign in Facebook and appealed to citizens help locate the student after she failed to return home.
Her classmates and friends have also put up various appeals on Facebook hoping to get some clues on where the teenager had gone.
Belmonte’s friends also shared her photos on Facebook in an effort to locate her whereabouts.
In October 2008, a nursing student of Ateneo de Zamboanga, Joed Anthony Pilangga, who was reported missing by his family had turned out to have been kidnapped in Zamboanga City and brought to Basilan province. He was eventually freed two months later in exchange for an unspecified ransom. (Mindanao Examiner)
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