Student escapes from abductors

BATANGAS CITY — For this 23-year-old coed, quick thinking averted what could be a long ordeal in the hands of unidentified people who snatched her in Mandaluyong City last Friday morning.

Kidnap victim Donna Zamora, also an employee of Key Multi-Industry in Mandaluyong City, managed to escape from her abductors — two men and a woman — when they stopped over at a food chain outlet here at about 1:30 p.m., six hours after she was seized near her house on Evangelista street, also in Mandaluyong.

She narrated to police probers that they traveled toward Southern Luzon aboard a van with license plate WKY 153, and stopped at the food outlet here to buy food for lunch.

She said she learned that they were in Batangas after she saw a "Welcome to Batangas" billboard.

According to Zamora, her abductors did not talk to her during the trip. "Ang tanging nasabi lang nila sa akin ay huwag daw akong matakot at mamamasyal lang kami (The only thing they told me was not to be afraid and that we would just take a ride)," she recalled.

Once inside the food outlet, she excused herself to go to the comfort room. There, she called her aunt through her cellphone which her abductors earlier had confiscated but which she secretly retrieved when they placed it on the dashboard.

She said she did not leave the comfort room until she spotted a security guard going out of the establishment and went along with him.

Zamora said she ran away and hid inside another food chain outlet where she called up her aunt again.

Her aunt called up the Mandaluyong City police which, in turn, relayed the information to the office of Senior Superintendent Rolando Lorenzo, Batangas police director.

Batangas policemen arrived soon after and fetched her from the comfort room of the second food outlet.

Her abductors escaped when they discovered that Zamora had slipped out.

Police hastily set up roadblocks along the kidnappers’ possible escape routes but to no avail.

Zamora could not identify her abductors nor give any inkling why she was snatched.