An 11th class student in northern Vietnam was safely rescued yesterday after being held for ransom for two days by eight kidnappers in a hotel. All of the offenders were also handcuffed then.

The male victim Ngo The Tam, 17, was kidnapped at 6:45am on October 2 by a group of strangers when he was walking on his way from home to school, according to the report to police by Ms. Nong Thu Huong, 34, who is adoptive mother of the teenager and residing on Phan Dinh Phung Street in Thai Nguyen City of the northern Thai Nguyen Province.

The kidnappers kept on calling Huong to inform that they were holding the victim.

Early in the following day, the kidnappers phoned her again and asked for a ransom of over VND1 billion (US$48,100) and set a deadline to hand over it by 11h on the day.

They threatened to send the victim to China after tearing his eyes out, Huong told police.

By the time, the central police department has been coordinating with provincial police agencies of Hanoi, Thai Nguyen and Bac Ninh to trace down the kidnappers and rescue the victim.

At 10:00 am on October 4, policemen targeted at three suspects staying in a hotel in Hanoi’s Tu Liem District.

At 2:00pm, the policemen followed one of the suspects Nguyen Van Phuoc to another hotel named Thanh Quyen in Bac Ninh, and got confirmed that the victim was kept there.

Suddenly attacking the hotel, the policemen constrained all eight kidnappers staying in Thanh Quyen Hotel and rescued the victim.

Initial investigation showed that one of the kidnappers, Dinh Quoc Tinh, 32, lent over a billion dong to Dai Minh Company, where Huong’s husband is working for as marketing deputy director. However, the loan is not mature.

It is suspected that Tinh organized the kidnap to take back the debt early.