KOTA KINABALU: A Malaysian had a narrow escape after he managed to evade his captors following his alleged abduction while looking for a job in the Philippines. The man, identified as Victor Mak, had been looking for work in Manila when he was forced into a van outside a hotel in Pasay City at about 5. 30pm on Saturday, according to a regional intelligence source.In the initial report received yesterday, the source said the Malaysian used the Telegram app to contact the “ employers ” offering a

Nigerian kidnappers, who abducted more than 100 schoolchildren this week, have demanded food for

Kidnappers are demanding a ransom of one million naira each to release around 80 children snatched

( Reuters)-Taliban authorities in the western Afghan city of Herat killed four alleged kidnappers

remove reference to Islamist militants) KADUNA, Nigeria( Reuters)-Kidnappers who raided a boarding

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A GANG of kidnappers abducted a kid at knifepoint from their screaming mum as part of an evil plot

Reuters could not verify the letter's authenticity.... Calls to the police spokesman for Zamfara and to state government officials were not going through.A source at the Nigerian air force, asked to comment on media reports that military operations against criminal gangs were underway, said:" We are clearing these elements fiercely and decisively.... It's a total operation." Zamfara has been one of the worst-hit states in a wave of mass abductions of pupils from schools across northwestern Nig

Taliban authorities have put the bodies of four alleged kidnappers on public display, in a sign the

CLEO Smith was held locked in a room for 18 days by her doll-obsessed kidnapper and still wakes up