Kuwait manhunt on to find kidnapped Filipina

Kuwait police have launched an extensive campaign in search of a Filipina believed to have been kidnapped and raped by seven men and they hope she will just switch her mobile phone on to pinpoint her location by satellite.

The search campaign has been triggered by a report by the Philippine embassy, which told police that it had received a mobile phone call from the Filipina saying she had been kidnapped and that seven men are taking turns in raping her daily.

The embassy in Kuwait City provided police with details of a taxi cab which the unnamed girl said was involved in her kidnap.

When police found the car and interrogated its owner, they were surprised to find out he had not used his taxi for 23 days because of a leg fracture.

“Police have tried many times to call the kidnapped girl’s number but her phone was always turned off,” the Kuwaiti Arabic language daily Alanba said on Sunday. “It seems that the only hope now is that she turns her mobile on so police can locate her whereabouts by satellite and free her.”

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