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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
1 more kidnap try in NoCot school (6:13 p.m.)
By Malu Cadelina Manar
Correspondent
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- A public school in a town in North Cotabato was deserted for one day when parents and guardians rushed to fetch their children before classes ended after hearing a report that a black Toyota van tried to snatch a Grade Two pupil on Monday morning.
The seven-year-old girl identified only as "Bai" told reporters that a lady, wearing white hospital uniform, who alighted from the van tried to snatch her while she was waiting for her uncle outside Marbel Elementary School in Barangay Marbel in Matalam town at around 10:30 a.m. Monday.
Bai even showed bruises on her right hand, which she said she got after hitting the school's steel gate when she squeezed out of the lady's grip.
Bai was waiting for her uncle, Rojas Bacalanan, councilman of Barangay Marbel and also president of the Parents Teachers Community Association (PTCA) of Marbel Elementary School, when the attempted abduction took place.
Witnesses saw a black Toyota van with plate number BMM 507 and an old model of a white pick-up that appeared to be the backup. The pick-up was only identified with the plate's last three numbers 486, according to Bacalanan. (Sun.Star Davao/Sunnex)
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