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Mindanao: 75 students, other civilians hostaged Armed tribesmen raided elementary school

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Posted 10 December 2009 - 09:16 PM

http://news.yahoo.co...pines_abduction

http://ph.news.yahoo...ed-85c5a6c.html

Armed mountain tribesmen raided an elementary school and nearby homes in the troubled southern Philippines on Thursday and were holding at least 57 people hostage to keep police at bay, authorities said.The raid was carried out less than three weeks after a massacre in a nearby province in which 57 people were killed, throwing an unwelcome spotlight on the Southeast Asian nation
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MANILA, Philippines (2nd UPDATE) - An armed group on Thursday morning took hostage at least 75 people, including pupils, in Prosperidad town in Agusan del Sur, police officials said.

Chief Superintendent Lino Calingasan, Caraga police director, said at least 15 armed men led by a former member of Civilian Auxiliary Forces Geographical Unit identified as Ondo Perez raided the Maitum Elementary School and took the victims hostage in Sitio Maitum, Barangay San Martin around 8 a.m..

Calingasan said the hostage takers have already released 18 of the victims, including 17 pupils and an old woman.

The regional police office's operations chief, Senior Superintendent Nestor Fajura told ANC that a team of policemen were on their way to Prosperidad town to serve warrants of arrest against Perez and the members of his group.

Fajura said Perez's group are suspects in the massacre of the family of a certain Jun Tubay, a resident of Prosperidad, last February. He said the group hostaged the pupils to prevent the arrest.


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