About a dozen gunmen stopped a minibus carrying officials of the local school in Patikul town on Monday and took principal Gabriel Canizares, 36, Major Ramon David Hontiveros said.
'Mr Canizares was with his co-teachers in the jeep, and he was the only one abducted,' said Maj Hontiveros.
'There is an operation going on to track down Mr Canizares,' he added.
The kidnappers are believed to be members of the Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim extremist group that intelligence agencies have linked to the Al-Qaeda network.
Abu Sayyaf militants have been blamed for various bombing and kidnapping-for-ransom attacks including the abductions of school teachers. -- AFP
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