ZAMBOANGA
CITY: A seven-year-old girl from this city is almost kidnapped last Saturday, but
escaped from her abductors, police said.
The
police added that they are still handling their investigation to uncover the
identities of six teenagers who tried and failed in kidnapping the minor.
Zamboanga
City Police Office (ZCPO) spokesman Supt. Ariel Huesca, said, quoting the girl’s
statements that the kidnappers seized the girl around 8:00 in the evening, Saturday,
when she went on an errand at Sitio
Luyahan, Pasonanca.
Huesca
said the suspects then placed the helpless girl inside a sack and threatened to
kill her if she will try to scream and call for help.
The
girl managed to escape when the suspects brought her to a bushy area at of the
same place.
She
then went straight to her parents and narrated her ordeal, after which the
parents brought her to the Police Station 7 headquarters and reported the
incident.
Last
January, a kidnap suspect pointed as responsible for several kidnapping
incidents in this city, was arrested by combined police and military forces in Talabaan.