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Gunmen seize ex-DepEd exec, kin

Roel Pareño - The Philippine Star

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – Armed men seized a former official of the Department of Education and her grandson in a coastal village in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay yesterday.

Isabel Agpaw Muyargas, former school division superintendent, and five-year-old Kyle Hamad were seized at gunpoint from their home in Barangay Bangkerohan, according to provincial police director Senior Superintendent Celso Bael.

Bael said two unidentified men armed with a M16 rifle and a handgun barged inside the house of the victims at about 11:30 a.m.

The suspects dragged the victims into a waiting pumpboat, which sped toward Barangay Magdaup.

Police pursued the gunmen.   

ARMED

BAEL

BARANGAY

BARANGAY BANGKEROHAN

BARANGAY MAGDAUP

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

ISABEL AGPAW MUYARGAS

KYLE HAMAD

NBSP

SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT CELSO BAEL

ZAMBOANGA SIBUGAY

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