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Kidnapped Basilan vice mayor freed in Pagadian City

|  March 7, 2014 - 4:25 pm

ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/07 March) – The vice mayor of a town in Basilan who was abducted Tuesday was released Wednesday in Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur.

Chief Insp. Ariel Huesca, Police Regional Office-9 information officer, said the victim, Vice Mayor Arsina Nanoh of Hadji Muhtammad, Basilan, was released early morning Wednesday.

Huesca said Nanoh was made to board the 1 p.m. flight Wednesday from Pagadian to Manila where her husband, Alnajil, reportedly met her.

Nanoh, 20, was abducted Tuesday by a group of unidentified persons at a shopping mall in this city.

The police official said Nanoh’s mother, Sitti Raddah Kahing, and Alnajil confirmed the victim’s release.

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But Supt. Sofronio Ecaldre, Zamboanga del Sur police director, denied Nanoh was freed in Pagadian.[]

Ecaldre said that he ordered his personnel to check the veracity of the report “but it turned out to be negative.[]

He said he was even surprised when several reporters called him asking about the release of the vice mayor.

He, however, said they will continue to verify the report. (MindaNews)