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Benning in wissinoming around 11 30 last night. Once he was freed from the burning call he was able to tell officers was abducted by three men driving a black did you do dee with tinted windows. At which time he was approached by three males who point of gun abducted him put him in the back of his car zip tied him drove him around for the next several hoursism they ended up in olney where the suspects doused the victim with gasoline and lit his vehicle on fire. During all that time they were driving around, police say the suspects were using the victims phone calling and texting repeatedly to demand ransom from his family. We did learn that a Family Member did begin toe messages from our victims phone from the people that abducted him demanding 10,00 now, this went on for at least five hours until at 5 42 police were called to west ford road. Reporter Police Emphasize they d ....
And i was kind of scared. Reporter firefighters and paramedics rescued the man his burnt clothing lay strewn across the sidewalk. Investigators spent much of the morning on the scene looking for clues including Surveillance Video from homes along the block. I believe they have cameras down here so i hopefully they caught everything. Reporter the victim was taken to Temple University hospital with second and third degree burns over about 50 percent of his body. Police are expected to provide some new information and just about a half an hour we will be there and we will have a live report coming up on action news at 6 oclock. Live at the special victims units in hunting park im Sarah Bloomquist channel6 action news. Back to you. Sarah thank you. A camden firefighter injured on the job was released from the hospit ....