By Xinhua,
Manila : Unidentified kidnappers have freed without ransom a 30-year-old South Korean and a Filipino businessman kidnapped in March in a mountainous area in Mindanao, southern Philippines, police said on Saturday.
Senior Superintendent Adap Panares, provincial police chief of Lanao del Sur province in Mindanao, said 10 heavily armed men released Tae Jung, a South Korean who ventured on chromite mining, and his Filipino business contact Victor Macasieras Friday near Kapai town, Lanao del Sur.
Adap said the armed men initially asked millions of pesos of ransom but set them free without ransom.
Muslim separatists, left-wing rebels and some other lawless elements are active in the mountains of Lanao del Sur, said the police.