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K&R News

2014-04-22 | As identification continues of South Korea ferry victims, families cling to hope
The bodies are transported to Jindo island, about an hour's boat ride away, as rescuers notify families waiting at the port, or at a gymnasium where many are sheltering. Bodies without IDs are described to officials in Jindo who relay the details to the relatives. At the dock, bodies are taken to a white tent for another inspection, then transported by ambulance to another tent. A coroner there cleans up the bodies, mostly to wipe off oil and dirt and straighten limbs, and then the families file in.

2014-04-20 | How are recovered bodies identified?
When bodies are recovered, the first procedure is to check the personal belongings of the victim, and their physical appearance, such as their height. If the body is able to be identified, the family is contacted, so they can confirm with their own eyes. If the body can't be identified, the body is sent to a nearby hospital for examination, which includes taking DNA samples and fingerprint identification. Blood tests and biopsies are taken if the recovered body has been severely damaged. However, with fears of a sudden rush of bodies being recovered at once, and complaints that the procedures have been inefficient, medical experts have begun collecting DNA samples from relatives of the missing passengers.

2014-04-15 | Semporna resort kidnap: Authorities receive proof Chinese national is alive
Sabah police commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib confirmed that they have received a photograph of Gao Hua Yuan taken in the southern Philippines. He, however, declined to say when the picture was taken and received by state police. Hamza also refused to comment if police had received any fresh ransom demands

2014-04-14 | 2 members of kidnap-for-ransom group killed in raid
At least two members of a kidnap-for-ransom group were killed on Monday in a pre-dawn raid in Zamboanga City, an official said. Senior Superintendent Angelito Casimiro, city police director, said six others, including a village chairman who is a commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and a police officer were captured and a member of the police Special Action Force (SAF) was also wounded during the operation following a shootout against the suspects.

2014-04-14 | Even the 99 percent get kidnapped in Mexico
Once the plutocrats’ plague, kidnapping for ransom in Mexico has gone decidedly mass market. Shopkeepers and family physicians, carpenters and taxi drivers: All have been targeted in recent years as minions of young criminals enter a trade long run by guerrillas and gangland bosses. That puts Mexico, along with Colombia and Venezuela, among the world’s most kidnap-prone countries.

2014-04-14 | Kidnapped Venezuelan Journalist Freed
A high-profile Venezuelan journalist was freed on Monday after a week-long kidnapping that brought attention once again to the South American country's endemic violent crime. Nairobi Pinto, 32-year-old head of correspondents for private TV station Globovision, was found in the town of Cua, about 60 km (38 miles) south of the capital, Caracas, authorities said.

2014-04-14 | Philippine Government Reiterates No Ransom Policy
The Philippine government on Monday reiterated that it will continue to observe its "no ransom policy" in handling kidnapping cases, reports China's Xinhua news agency. "The (Philippine government's) policy against paying ransom stands," said Deputy Presidential Spokesman Abigail Valte. Valte also said the operation launched by the military in southern Philippines to rescue the two victims who were abducted from Sabah, Malaysia is ongoing.

2014-04-10 | N.C. Kidnap Victim Abducted in 'Elaborate' Plot Tied to Inmate
The suspects accused of abducting a North Carolina man for ransom sent his wife chilling text messages that they would dismember him and send his body to her “in 6 boxes” if she contacted cops, authorities said. Some of the grisly threats were detailed in an affidavit released Thursday, a day after FBI agents rescued Frank Arthur Janssen, 63, from an Atlanta apartment complex.

2014-04-10 | Semporna resort kidnap: RM36.4mil ransom demand for Chinese tourist, Zahid reveals
KUALA LUMPUR: Abductors of two women from a resort off Semporna have demanded RM36.4mil for the release of a Chinese tourist, Home Minister Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi revealed.

2014-04-08 | Philippine gang behind kidnap of Chinese tourist in Malaysia: police
Malaysian authorities have pinpointed kidnap-for-ransom groups in southern Philippines as the culprits behind the kidnap of a Chinese tourist and a Filipino worker on a resort in the Malaysian district of Semporna on the island of Borneo, reports the Global Times, a tabloid under the auspices of the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily. The tourist, 29-year-old Gao Huayuan, was on her phone on the veranda outside her room at the Singamata Reef Resort on April 2 when she was grabbed by seven gunmen armed with M14 rifles. The gunmen had already taken resort staff member Marcy Dayawan hostage and together they were forced onto a boat.