Unidentified gunmen seized an elderly Chinese trader in
daring broad daylight abduction in downtown Sirawai in the southern Filipino province of Zamboanga del Norte
It said the gang dragged the 60-year old Christina Yee to a
waiting pump boat that sped off towards the high sea on Monday afternoon.
Police said Yee owns the Ben Yee store in downtown Sirawai.
No individual or group claimed responsibility for the latest abduction, but
this occurred despite heightened security alert in the troubled region where
military forces are battling the Abu Sayyaf group tied to the Islamic State.
Yee’s family did not give any statement to the media and
police said there is an on-going operation to track down the victim.
The province is a known lair of Moro Islamic Liberation
Front rebels and criminal gangs blamed by authorities in previous ransom
kidnappings there.
In October last year, suspected MILF rebels kidnapped
Italian restaurateur and former missionary Rolando del Torchio, who owns Ur
Choice Pizza House in the village of Miputak in Dipolog
City
Torchio, 56, was taken to Sulu province and freed in April
this year after paying huge ransoms to his captors.
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