Philippine police checking if abducted American died after being shot

MANILA, Philippines: Philippine police officials said they are checking reports of whether an American national died after he was shot while resisting his abductors on October 17.

Elliot Onil Eastman, 26, from Vermont, was shot twice with an M16 rifle while trying to fight off his four kidnappers, who posed as police officers, in the coastal town of Sibuco in Zamboanga del Norte province, police said.

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