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By Laurie CHURCHMAN ABUJA, March 24, 2024 (AFP) – More than 130 schoolchildren seized by gunmen in a mass kidnapping in northwestern Nigeria earlier this month were released unharmed on Sunday, officials and the army said. The kidnapping in Kuriga, Kaduna state on March 7 was one of the biggest such attacks in years and prompted a national outcry over insecurity. Teachers and residents previously said around 280 pupils were kidnapped, but the army said […]
KADUNA, Nigeria, March 13, 2024 (AFP) – Gunmen abducted dozens of people from a northwestern Nigerian village on Tuesday, according to two local representatives and a UN source, just days after the kidnapping of more than 250 pupils from a school in the same region. Criminal gangs often carry out mass kidnappings in northwest Nigeria, targeting schools, villages and highways where they can quickly snatch large numbers of people for ransom payments. Tuesday’s abductions in […]
Local government officials in Kaduna State confirmed the kidnapping attack on Kuriga school on Thursday, but gave no figures as they said they were still working out how many children had been abducted. At least one person was shot dead during the attack, local residents said. Sani Abdullahi, one of the teachers at the GSS Kuriga school in the Chikun district, said staff managed to escape with many students when the gunmen attacked the […]
PHNOM PENH, Feb 16, 2024 (AFP) – Two Taiwanese men have been sentenced to two years in jail each after they staged a fake kidnapping from a Cambodian seaside resort and posted video of it online, a court said on Friday. Chen Neng-chuan, 31, and Lu Tsu-hsien, 34, were arrested after they posted a video of themselves being detained and beaten up by security guards at a building in Sihanoukville on Facebook earlier this […]
ABUJA, May 7, 2023 (AFP) – Police in Nigeria said Sunday that it rescued 58 people who were abducted and held hostage by criminal gangs in central Kogi State, while one victim died during the operation. Kidnappings are one of the many security challenges facing incoming President Bola Tinubu, who will be sworn in later this month after a February election disputed by the opposition. “The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has rescued 58 […]
Three Indonesian fishermen kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants more than a year ago have been rescued in the southern Philippines, police said Friday. The men were among eight crew members aboard a vessel when it was boarded by the notorious kidnap-for-ransom militants — who have distant links to the Islamic State group — off Borneo in January 2020. They were held in Sulu province in the southern Philippines — the group’s stronghold — and during […]
(Eagle News) — The Abu Sayyaf released another kidnap victim in Jolo, Sulu on Monday, May 21. The victim, who was not identified, was released around 8 a.m., according to the Joint Task Force Sulu. The release came after four other people were released by members of the kidnap-for-ransom group. President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, May 19, personally turned over to the Philippine National Police the P02 Benierose Alvarez and P01 Dinah Gumahad to PNP Chief […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, May 19, turned over to the Philippine National Police the two policewomen released by members of the Abu Sayyaf who abducted them in Sulu on April 29. Chief Supt. John Bulalacao, PNP spokesperson, said the turn-over of P02 Benierose Alvarez and P01 Dinah Gumahad to PNP Chief Director General Oscar Albayalde took place at 3:30 p.m. in Davao. According to the PNP, the two had been released […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Teresita Ang See of the Movement for Restoration of Peace and Order (MRPO) revealed that the case of ‘Tokhang for Ransom’ is not a new thing. This has happened even before the controversial abduction-slay of Korean-National Jee-Ick-Joo . Jee-Ick-Joo was abducted by a group of armed men in Angeles City, Pampanga last year. Suspects demanded P5-million ransom money from Joo’s wife, in exchange for his life. But the suspects apparently had already […]
(Eagle News) — The South Korean government is asking the Philippine government for an explanation regarding the murder of one of its nationals who was apparently a kidnap for ransom victim, by certain police officers under the Philippine National Police Anti-Illegal Drugs Group. This came about as Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said other PNP officers could be involved in the kidnapping. But he refused to name these officers. The South Korean Foreign Minister Yun […]
A South Korean businessman who went missing in the Philippines three months ago was kidnapped by policemen and murdered on the day he disappeared, a Seoul official said Wednesday. The family of the man, in his 50s and only identified with his surname Ji, reportedly sent the suspects a ransom of five million pesos ($100,000) two weeks after he was seized in Angeles, near Manila. But he had already been strangled to death and […]
