Kidnapped boy flees militants

A KIDNAPPED American boy who escaped from suspected Muslim militants wandered without shoes for two days in a Philippine jungle before villagers found him.

Police Senior Superintendent Edwin de Ocampo said 14-year-old Kevin Lunsmann, of Campbell County, Virginia, told his kidnappers that he would take a bath in a stream, then ran away after five months of captivity on Basilan Island.

The boy, who was barefoot, followed a river and ran away when he saw villagers, who eventually assured him that they were friends.