Was it kidnapping or a lovers’ quarrel?

Was it kidnapping or plain lovers’ quarrel?

This is the question Manila police is trying to answer following the alleged snatching of a female student of the Adamson University yesterday afternoon at the campus parking lot.

According to security guard Jose Darwin Arbis, he was manning his post near the campus church along San Marcelino Street at about 2:20 p.m. when he noticed to a commotion between a woman and a man.

Arbis said he saw the victim being mauled and then dragged by an unidentified man to a green Revo van with plate number WDY-120 at the campus parking lot.

When Arbis approached the couple, he was told by the man to back off as the student was his wife and they were just having a quarrel.

But when he asked the student, Arbis said the girl denied having known the man. Arbis said the face of the girl was bruised when she was forced inside the van which later sped-off.

Arbis reported the incident to police after jotting down the van’s license plates. However, Manila police had expressed doubts that what had happened inside the Adamson campus was indeed a kidnapping incident.

According to Superintendent Manolo Martinez, commander of the Ermita police station, said the incident could be a quarrel between lovers.

Martinez said the couple was seen quarreling at the parking lot before the alleged mauling and abduction. Nonetheless, police has decided to place the case under investigation. – Mike Frialde