At least eight people were killed when government forces clashed with a group of masked men who abducted the wife of a businessman in the southern Philippines, police said on Wednesday. The men, wearing ski masks, barged into the house of Marilyn Tiu in Alicia, Zamboanga del Sur province, late on Tuesday and dragged her to waiting speedboats, which the kidnappers used in fleeing to an island, a police report said. Full Story