A worker of the Department of Social Welfare and Development escaped a kidnapping by suspected Abu Sayyaf gunmen who seized three colleagues in Talipao, Sulu Thursday afternoon, police confirmed.
Chief Superintendent Noel delos Reyes, police director for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said Lerma Jura slipped away during the commotion after the gunmen stopped them in Barangay Upper Sinumaan.
Jura was found by troops of the 2nd Marine Battalion and has been turned over to the DSWD.
Aside from Jura, municipal facilitator Norhate Pecangco, Robert Saputalo and another still unidentified DSWD worker were conducting a survey for the agency’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. They had no security escorts.
Meanwhile, the ARMM police also confirmed that a Japanese national kidnapped in Maguindanao in April had been freed from his captors last Sunday.
Yasuhiro Nakamura, 44, who is connected to the Asian Benefits Corp., was found walking alone somewhere in Guindulungan town.
The Japanese was abducted on April 25 by a still unidentified group.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/91502/dswd-worker-escapes-sulu-kidnapping---police
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