A dramatic rescue operation in Parañaque City ends with four suspects and a police officer wounded, highlighting the escalating violence in the Philippines' fight against kidnapping crimes.
A kidnapping rescue operation in Parañaque City ended in gunfire on Wednesday night, leaving four suspected abductors and a police officer wounded, according to the Philippine National Police. The 78-year-old victim was freed after Anti-Kidnapping Group operatives handed over an undisclosed sum of ransom money, with police saying the suspects opened fire as officers moved in. The injured suspects were taken to hospital, while the policeman was reported to be in stable condition.
The encounter adds to a string of anti-kidnapping operations in the city in recent months. In December 2025, authorities rescued a 26-year-old Chinese national from a Parañaque condominium after a tip-off through the PNP Hotline Facebook page, with six suspects arrested. Earlier, in August 2025, police freed two kidnapping victims and detained four Chinese nationals in a case that allegedly began with a fake foreign-exchange and cryptocurrency pitch. In February 2026, the PNP also said it rescued a Filipino businessman and recovered P4 million in ransom, underscoring the continuing scale of kidnapping cases in the Philippines.
Police said an unspecified number of suspects remain at large and are being pursued. The PNP has not yet released further operational details, and the case remains under follow-up investigation. Similar armed rescues have previously turned violent in the Philippines, including a 2018 Laguna operation in which five alleged kidnappers were killed after firing on officers.
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