Philippine Mayor Jeffrey Lim of Salug, Zamboanga del Norte Kidnapped

Ten heavily armed men abducted Mayor Jeffrey Lim of Salug, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines on Monday night.

Via ABS-CBN:

The local official was abducted at gunpoint by the armed men who were wearing police camouflage uniforms, according to the Zamboanga del Norte provincial police office.

He was brought inside a yellow multicab van that headed towards Barangay Caracol in Salug, police said.

Police later found the van in Barangay Caracol already torched and with no traces of its passengers.

Authorities believe that the armed group either escaped by boat toward the open sea or Lim is being held by his captors in Barangay Mucas in Salug and is pssobily in the hands of a group led by a certain Aloy Alsree,a Moro Islamic Liberation Front commander.

Salug is about two and a half hours from Zamboanga City.

Lim had been having dinner with his family every night at a new bus terminal, apparently without any security escort, Chief Supt. Mario Yanga of the regional police office said.

Police have formed a task group to rescue Lim.

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