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| Election officer's son kidnapped in S. Philippines |
| 2010-06-21 |
| Police are now tracking down the suspects behind the alleged abduction of a son of an election official in southern Philippines on Sunday, a local police officer said Monday. Chief Superintendent Bienvinido Latag, police director for Mindanao Muslim Autonomous Region identified the victim as Nuraldin Yusof, son of Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner Elias Yusof. In a text message to Xinhua, Latag said the younger Yusof failed to return home after praying at a local mosque in Dansalang village, in Mindanao's northern city of Marawi at around 7:30 p.m. "An unidentified person called the commissioner two hours later, demanding the revocation of May election results in the municipalities of Malabang, Pikong, Taraka and Masiu, in Lanao del Sur province in exchange for his son's release," Latag said. |
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