10-year-old girl abducted in Surigao del Sur

BUTUAN CITY- A ten-year-old girl was abducted while playing with her classmates near the gate of Adlay Community Elementary School in Barangay Adlay in Carrascal town Surigao del Sur Tuesday morning, police said. Caraga police regional information office said that the was a Grade IV pupil, and resident of Purok 8, Barangay Adlay. Carrascal police claimed that the victim was playing marbles with her classmates when unidentified men on a dark colored van without plate number grabbed the victim. Initial police investigation showed that the victim, wearing white dress with horizontal red stripes, cut classes after the morning recess and went playing marbles. The victim’s playmates told police that while they were playing, a dark colored van stopped near them and man alighted and asked the victim of her name, and after saying her name, the suspects grabbed the child and covered her mouth when she cried for help and forced her inside the vehicle that sped toward Tandag City in Surigao del Sur. Police said they are investigating the motive of the abduction because no ransom has been demanded so far and the abductors have not been sending any communication. The victim’s Parents and close relatives have asked help from Surigao del Sur Provincial Government on the incident. — Ben Serrano/LBG, GMANews.TV