KIDNAPPED 5-YEAR-OLD GIRL RESCUED

Members of the Philippine National Police’s Anti-Kidnapping Group rescued a five-year-old girl from her captors in an entrapment operation on Friday in Lanao del Sur. Chief Supt. Rueben Theodore Sindac, PNP Public Information chief, said the victim was rescued by the AKG Mindanao Field Unit and Iligan City Police office in an operation in Barangay Matampay, Marawi City. Arrested were Joven Saripada, 22, and Jalal Roco, 19. Reports said the suspects abducted the girl on July 16 outside her home.