AMAS, Kidapawan City: Inmates at the North Cotabato Provincial Jail here held hostage a jail guard today (Monday) to demand fair treatment from their management.

The hostage drama began at around 6 a.m. today with leaders of the 834 inmates telling through local broadcast media of their hostage-taking of Senior Jail Guard Officer II Samuel Sunico to press for redress from alleged abuses inside the prison facility.

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