Police inspect the get-away car used by gunmen who kidnapped a resort owner Perfecto Martinez in Datu Odin Sinsuat town in Maguindanao province in the Muslim autonomous region. (Mindanao Examiner Photo / Ferdinandh Cabrera)COTABATO CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / September 11, 2008) – Police continue to search for a kidnapped resort owner in the southern Philippines.
Gunmen seized Tuesday Perfecto Martinez, owner of the El Bimbo Resort, in Datu Odin Sinsuat town in Shariff Kabunsuan, one of six provinces under the Muslim autonomous region.
Police have found the get-away car used by the gunmen, but there were no signs of the kidnapped victim. The gunmen allegedly demanded ten million pesos ransom from the hostage’s family in exchange for his safe release, police said.
Martinez was driving his car when gunmen flagged down the vehicle and forcibly took him.
Last month, gunmen also kidnapped a Filipino doctor, Milagros Yap, in Cotabato City near Shariff Kabunsuan town, but security forces rescued her after killing one the captors in a running gun battle. (Ferdinandh Cabrera and Mark Navales)
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