Security forces rescue kidnapped man

Zamboanga: Two policemen and a lawyer were arrested for the January 9 kidnapping of a businessman who was rescued by a joint police-military rescue operation in southern port's Zamboanga City on Tuesday, police said in a report on Thursday. The lawyer's wife Grace Mabatan Gonzales was also arrested together with six other suspected kidnappers.

The mayor asked the entire police force to solve other kidnapping and abduction cases in the region.

From December 8, 2008 to February 4, 2009, some 13 people, including three aid workers (two of them foreigners), were kidnapped on Jolo, Basilan, and Zamboanga City, known as Abu Sayyaf territories.