A businessman was abducted on Tuesday morning by still unidentified gunmen in front of his house in the southern city of Marawi, a local police official said. Abdulcarim Magarang was riding a pedicab to his house in Barangay Bubonga Lilod Madaya in Marawi City at 6 a.m. when five armed men blocked the road and seized him, Chief Superintendent Bienvenido Latag, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) regional police chief, said. Magarang was forcibly taken to a white Sedan car with no license plate, which the kidnappers also used to fled toward an unknown destination, according to Latag. The regional police chief said local police are still investigating the motive behind the kidnapping. Pursuit operations have also been launched to track down Magarang’s abductors, he added. Early this year, Yemeni missionary Naijib Al Odaini was also seized in Marawi City by gunmen posing as cops. He was released a month later. (See: Kidnapped Yemeni national freed in Marawi City)
Two weeks ago, Filipino-Chinese businessman Nelson Tay was kidnapped in Cotabato City by two men wearing camouflage uniforms and taken to the nearby province of Maguindanao. He was freed three days later.
