May 13, 2005

Ex-Employees Were Philippines Abductors

By MARTHA ANN OVERLAND

Disgruntled former employees at a university in the southern Philippines were behind last month's kidnapping of 13 students and faculty members, according to the institution's president. All of the hostages were eventually freed, but one police officer was shot and killed during the rescue operation.

Camar A. Umpa, president of the Mindanao State University system, said the kidnapping was the latest assault on faculty and students by a group of former staff members who say they were

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