ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Mar. 4, 2014) – Police said a woman was reportedly abducted on Tuesday at a shopping mall in the southern Philippine port city of Zamboanga.
Police identified the woman as Arsina Kahing Nanoh, 20, who is in jewellery business. She was allegedly abducted at Mindpro Mall in downtown Zamboanga.
Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca, a regional police spokesman, said the woman’s husband reported the abduction and that authorities were investigating the incident.
“One Alnajil Nanoh reported that his wife identified as Arsina Nanoh was allegedly abducted by unidentified suspects at Mindpro Mall,” Huesca told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
Nanoh was allegedly forced by unidentified men out of the shopping mall unnoticed and into a waiting vehicle where other men were waiting, other reports said.
No individual or group claimed responsibility for the abduction.
Police said Nanoh is the vice mayor in Hadji Muhtamad town in Basilan who ran under the United Nationalist Alliance. (Mindanao Examiner)
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