Three telecom workers abducted in southern Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (AP): Unidentified assailants abducted three cell phone company employees who were looking for a site to erect a transmission tower in the southern Philippines, police said Friday.
The Globe Telecom workers were kidnapped Wednesday in a remote hinterland near Tubaran, in Lanao del Sur province, and their car was found abandoned nearby, local police chief Senior Supt. Isnaji Bantala said.
No one has claimed responsibility and there has been no ransom demand, he said. The area is a known haunt of the Pentagon kidnapping gang, which is on a U.S. list of terrorist organizations.
Bantala said the workers, two men and a woman, failed to coordinate with security forces before they set out on foot for the site to put up a new cell phone tower.
The company did not comment immediately.
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