Isabel Muyargas and her grandson are reunited with their family. (Best available photo. Mindanao Examiner Photo – E. Dumaboc)
Kidnappers have freed on Monday afternoon a 68-year old woman and her grandson on an island off
Insp. Dahlan Samuddin, a regional police spokesman, said
Isabel Muyargas and her five-year old grandson Ismael Kyle Hamad were recovered
in Kabog Island
“They were abandoned by the kidnappers on the island and
Councilman Kiram fetched them and the woman and her grandson are now under the
care of the police,” Samuddin told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
He said no ransom was paid for the safe release of the
victims. “From what we gathered, we understand that the woman begged to the
kidnappers to free them because they are not wealthy and just living the life
of a simple family. She told them to have pity on the boy and that she is also
sickly,” Samuddin said.
Muyargas, a former education official, and the boy were
seized from their home in Bangkeron village in Ipil town on September 6. They
were dragged by five gunmen to two waiting motorized boats and escaped.
Police said the kidnappers were armed with automatic rifles,
but it was not immediately known whether they are members of the Abu Sayyaf or
other rebel groups.
No individual or group claimed responsibility for the latest
abductions. Just early this year, Abu Sayyaf gunmen also kidnapped Mayor Gemma
Adana, of Naga town near Ipil. And previous kidnappings in Ipil and nearby
areas have also been blamed by authorities to Abral Abdusallam – one of the
most notorious kidnap gang leaders in western Mindanao .
http://mindanaoexaminer.com/kidnapped-granny-boy-recovered-in-zamboanga-isle/
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