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 ==[[Zamboanga Sibugay News]]==
-'''Fish pen owner son seized'''
+'''Police activate task force to solve abduction case'''
-*Source: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/news/regions/19147-fish-pen-owner-son-seized
+*Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/zamboanga/local-news/2012/03/15/police-activate-task-force-solve-abduction-case-211380
-*Wednesday, March 14, 2012
+*Thursday, March 15, 2012
-:By Al Jacinto
+:By Bong Garcia
-ZAMBOANGA CITY: Unidentified gunmen seized the son of a fish pen owner who is also a village official in Zamboanga Sibugay, military and police reports said on Tuesday.
+THE Zamboanga Peninsula Police Office (ZPPO) has activated a task force to solve the recent abduction of a village official's son in Zamboanga Sibugay province.
+Zamboanga Sibugay Police Director Ruben Cariaga heads the Task Force Auditor, named after the family name of the victim, Meljohn Auditor.
-It said the assailants, armed with automatic rifles and pistols, abducted Meljhan Auditor, 20, who was only visiting the fish pen over the weekend.
+ZPPO Director Napoleon Estilles said Thursday they already have an idea where the victim was taken by the armed abductors.
-No group has claimed responsibility for the abduction, but Muslim rebels and criminal gangs with links to the militant group Abu Sayyaf are actively operating in the province, just 100 kilometers east of Zamboanga City.
+But Estilles did not give details as efforts continue to recover the hostage.
-The motive of the abduction is still unknown, but the military said it could be the handiwork of small criminal group extorting money from fish pen operators.
+Auditor, 20, was with some fishermen attending their fish trap two kilometers off shore Barangay Magdaup, Ipil town, the capital of Zamboanga Sibugay province, when he was seized by six unidentified gunmen last Sunday.
-The military put up additional checkpoints in the town and doubled its patrol to help the local police track down the perpetrators.
+Auditor is the son of Barangay Magdaup councilman Gabriel Auditor, whose family is into fish trading.
-It was the second abduction in the town since December last year when militants seized Warren Rodwell, a 52-year old Australian national married to a Filipina in Ipil.
+Estilles said the pump boat used by the suspects was already recovered.
-Rodwell was taken from his seaside home by gunmen disguised as policemen and dragged him to a waiting boat and brought to nearby Basilan province, a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf.
+He said the motive of abduction could be turf dispute involving the establishment of fishpen but they have not yet ruled out the involvement of kidnap-for-ransom-group.
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