Two kidnapped-victims released in southern Philippines
Source: gulfnews Seven-year old student and 34-year old wife of Scottish oilman released from kidnappers Manila: A seven year-old student and a 34-year old business woman married to a Scottish oilman were both released from their kidnappers, following clashes with Muslim bandits in two separate places in restive southern Philippines late Monday, belated reports said Tuesday. Elsie Navarro, 7, and her mother Elsie Navarro, a public school teacher, were reunited at 9:45 Monday night, one hour after Delia Sultan, a provincial board member, found the kidnap-victim in a far-flung area between Balong and Kabasalan Villages, Pikit town, North Cotabato, following a phone instruction from unidentified kidnappers, a source told Gulf News. Ransom payment was not made, Sultan was quoted as saying. Her husband Sumulong Sultan, mayor of Pikit, formed a crisis committee composed of several local village officials and residents in Balong Village to negotiate for the release