Child rescued from hostage-taking in Marawi City

COTABATO CITY — Police shot the man who forcibly entered a house in Barangay Sabala Manao Proper, Marawi City on Sunday, December 21, and took a six-year-old girl hostage. Lt. Colonel Jopy Ventura, spokesperson for the Police Regional Office in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (Pro-Bar), said the still unidentified man forcibly entered the house at 7:50 a.m., seized the girl and threatened her with a kitchen knife when a policeman in civilian clothes happened to pass by and initiated negotiations with the intruder. Senior Master Sergeant Sohair Solaiman of the Molundo municipal police station happened to be  jogging in the area when […]…
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