Smart boy escapes from kidnap men

A 10-year-old boy, kidnapped by three armed men in Pasig City Wednesday, escaped hours later by destroying the window glass panel of the warehouse where he was being held by his captors.

The victim, Inving Pacheco, a Grade 4 student of the Pasig City Catholic School, then led a police team headed by Pasig City police chief Superintendent John Sosito, to the warehouse in Barangay Malinao; but the kidnap suspects were nowhere to be found.

Sosito said Pacheco was standing in front of his school waiting for their family van, when a white vehicle stopped in front of him at about 2:30 p.m.

Three armed men, wearing black ski-masks to cover their faces, alighted and without a word dragged him into the vehicle and sped off. He was brought to a vacant warehouse.

However, hours later, Pacheco escaped by jumping out of the window, whose pane he had pried loose, when one of his captors who was guarding him, fell asleep.

The boy boarded a passing tricycle which took him to his school where the family vehicle was still waiting for him.

Upon reaching home, Pacheco narrated his ordeal to his mother, Vidal, a businesswoman, 45, who accompanied him to Sosito to report the incident.

Sosito and his men rushed to the warehouse but it had already been abandoned by the suspects. – Non Alquitran