Armed Men Abduct 4 From Southern Resort Island

The Philippine army says unidentified gunmen have kidnapped four people from an island resort in the southern Philippines, reports Al Jazeera (Qatar).

On Monday night, two Canadian tourists, a Norwegian resort manager and a Filipino woman were taken at gunpoint from the Oceanview resort on the southern Samal Island.

A military spokesman told Reuters that it appeared that the foreigners were the targets; they were not taken at random, he said. There were about 30 foreign...