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4 kidnapped Taiwanese freed after ransom payment

Four persons from China's Taiwan province who had been apparently kidnapped by their business partners were released early Saturday after ransom payment, officials said.

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Four persons from China's Taiwan province who had been apparently kidnapped by their business partners were released early Saturday after ransom payment, officials said.

The four, seized Friday night by 10 unidentified armed men in Manila, were freed after paying a ransom of 800,000 pesos (14,410 US dollars), the Philippine News Agency quoted National Anti-Kidnapping Task Force spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Danilo Servandoas saying.

Servando said he believed the kidnappers were fellow Taiwanese who carried out the abduction with Filipino cohorts in a bid to force one of the victims, identified as Bruce Cheng, to pay for the money owned to his captors.

Servando said Cheng knew his abductors, but declined to disclose the identity of the perpetrators. Investigators are now tracking down the perpetrators, he added.

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