FREED. Zamboangueña teacher, Rosina Singua, 58 (left), drinks coffee at a military camp after she was rescued from kidnappers on October 16 from a hotel in downtown Jolo, Sulu. (Photo courtesy: Western Mindanao Command Public Information Office)
A manhunt has been launched to arrest three more people behind the kidnapping of a Zamboangueña teacher, who left this city supposedly to attend a wedding ceremony on September 27 but ended up being abducted.
The teacher, Rosina Singua, 58, was rescued on October 16 from a hotel room in Barangay Walled City, Jolo, Sulu, minutes after her daughter, Soraya Bantongan, handed over some PHP283,000 ransom to a young lady at the port of Jolo.
Maj. Gen. Corleto Vinluan Jr., Joint Task Force Sulu commander, said Monday that the targets of the manhunt are two women and a man, who were among the five people involved in the kidnapping of Singua.
The two other suspects--all ransom claimants--were separately arrested after the rescue of Singua on October 16.
Col. Pablo Labra, Sulu police director, earlier disclosed that one of the two, Nurina Jura, 22, was arrested before she could board a passenger jeep to the town of Indanan coming from Jolo municipality.
It was Jura who received the ransom money from Bantongan at the port of Jolo.
Labra said that the other one, Nurjia Asakil, was arrested in a follow-up operation.
Asakil was the one who claimed the initial ransom payment, the amount of which was undisclosed, wired on October 13 through telegraphic transfer in one of the money courier services, the police official said.
The kidnappers had reportedly demanded PHP10 million ransom in exchange for the freedom of Singua. The ransom was further lowered to PHP200,000 after the initial payment was made by the victim’s family, police said.
Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) chief, said the troops, in coordination with the police, are tracking the whereabouts of the remaining suspects.
“We will not stop until we are able to get them,” Sobejana said.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1083762
The teacher, Rosina Singua, 58, was rescued on October 16 from a hotel room in Barangay Walled City, Jolo, Sulu, minutes after her daughter, Soraya Bantongan, handed over some PHP283,000 ransom to a young lady at the port of Jolo.
Maj. Gen. Corleto Vinluan Jr., Joint Task Force Sulu commander, said Monday that the targets of the manhunt are two women and a man, who were among the five people involved in the kidnapping of Singua.
The two other suspects--all ransom claimants--were separately arrested after the rescue of Singua on October 16.
Col. Pablo Labra, Sulu police director, earlier disclosed that one of the two, Nurina Jura, 22, was arrested before she could board a passenger jeep to the town of Indanan coming from Jolo municipality.
It was Jura who received the ransom money from Bantongan at the port of Jolo.
Labra said that the other one, Nurjia Asakil, was arrested in a follow-up operation.
Asakil was the one who claimed the initial ransom payment, the amount of which was undisclosed, wired on October 13 through telegraphic transfer in one of the money courier services, the police official said.
The kidnappers had reportedly demanded PHP10 million ransom in exchange for the freedom of Singua. The ransom was further lowered to PHP200,000 after the initial payment was made by the victim’s family, police said.
Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) chief, said the troops, in coordination with the police, are tracking the whereabouts of the remaining suspects.
“We will not stop until we are able to get them,” Sobejana said.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1083762
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