Mindanao Kidnappings 2009

DATE

VICTIMS

PLACE OF INCIDENT

DETAILS

January 8, 2009

Eliseo Hablo, Jr., businessman

Zamboanga City

- kidnapped in Zamboanga City
- rescued by police on February 10, 2009
- was found handcuffed on a bed in a house in Southcom Village, Upper Calarian, which is a few meters away from the military’s Western Mindanao Command

January 15, 2009

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) workers Andreas Notter, Swiss; Eugenio Vagni, Italian; and Mary Jean Lacaba, Filipino

Jolo, Sulu

see ICRC kidnapping timeline

January 23, 2009

teachers Janette delos Reyes, Freires Quizon, Rafael Mayonado

off the shores of Zamboanga City

kidnapped by armed men onboard a boat

January 29, 2009

Elizar Gomera, Lamitan city government employee; midwife (male)

Lamitan, Basilan

abducted while responding to a call do deliver a baby at a nearby barangay; escaped from his captors on February 7, 2009

January 31, 2009

Chester Gruta, 9-year-old son of a public school teacher

Lamitan, Basilan

abducted at the back of his home by three unidentified armed men aboard a motorcycle

February 3, 2009

Leah Laping, Amid Sali, -- Kasanyangan Foundation Inc. (lending firm) personnel

Sumisip, Basilan

- robbed of P50,000 collection then kidnapped
- Sali was rescued by marines on February 6, 2009

February 13, 2009

Umar Jaleel, Sri Lankan; member, Non-Violent Peace Force

Lamitan, Basilan

March 13, 2009

teachers Noemi Mandi, Jocelyn Inion, Jocelyn Enriquez; teachers of Bangkaw-Bangkaw Elementary School

Zamboanga Sibugay

kidnapped while onboard a pumpboat