Cops concerned about missing kidnap victim

No word has been heard from the kidnappers of businessman Anslem Choo Woon Chee, and officers of the Anti Kidnapping Squad (AKS) are concerned that no ransom demand has been made.

Adding to the concerns of relatives and police is the fact that gunshots were heard when he was snatched Wednesday night in front of his home at Sand Bank Avenue, San Boucaud, Santa Cruz by armed men.
There is speculation that Choo Woon Chee might have been shot during the struggle which he put up with one of the kidnappers. 
He is the proprietor of Archie’s Supermar-ket, Cantaro Village, Santa Cruz.

Of concern is the fact that if the businessman has been shot, then the people who snatched and are holding him may not take him to a medical institution.

Police also believe that Choo Woon Chee might also have been snatched because he was a witness to a robbery and shooting incident at his supermarket earlier this year, when a security guard was shot and robbed of his firearm.

Yesterday as the investigations continued, AKS officers together with members of the North Eastern Division searched places in the Santa Cruz area but to no avail. Lawmen said they are working along certain lines.

Choo Woon Chee had entered his yard in his blue four-door van around 8.10 pm when an armed man stopped the vehicle and attemp-ted to pull him out.

Police said Woon Chee tried to drive away, but that the man held on to one of the van’s door and tried to pull the businessman out. 

 
As a consequence, the van crashed and police said the as-sailant snatched Woon Chee and placed him in a waiting Nissan Primera silver grey vehicle, in which there were about three other occupants. 
Before leaving, police said several warning shots were fired.
Relatives have ex-pressed concern saying that the businessman is  asthmatic.

They also said that Choo Woon Chee’s two children are totally traumatised.