MANILA, Philippines — Gunmen have abducted an American man living in the southern Philippines, shooting him in the leg and ferrying him away in a boat, police said Friday.

The victim, named by police as Elliot Onil Eastman, was "forcibly taken" late Thursday in Mindanao, a southern island wracked in previous decades by Muslim insurgencies and ransom kidnappings that have since waned.

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