A Chinese woman escaped after allegedly being kidnapped during a night out and locked in a dog cage for 20 days in the Philippines.
She was found by police in a shop after fleeing the house in the Barangay Alangilan neighbourhood of Batangas City where she had been held for nearly three weeks on October 6.
Following her disappearance her boyfriend is claimed to have received a ransom demand for $200,000 (£179,000) for her freedom.
He was also sent a video from an unknown number on his phone that allegedly showed his girlfriend being battered by a baseball bat.
The unnamed woman from Shanghai was taken to a police station after being found by officers at a convenience store and later a raid took place of the house where she had been held, but her alleged captors had escaped.
A dog cage was found containing pillows and a red bucket where the woman had been held, it is claimed.
Reports said that she had been kidnapped while out with a friend at a club in the red light district of Angeles City, Pampanga province - some 120 miles from where she was rescued - on September 17.
The police anti-kidnapping unit confirmed that an abduction had been reported in the same city on the same date.
The woman's boyfriend reported her disappearance and said that the woman had been taken in a white Toyota Fortuner with two Chinese nationals and a Filipino.
It is unclear how the victim managed to break free from the cage and escape her kidnappers.
Brigadier General Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr., chief of the Police Regional Office 4A, said in a statement: "I commend the operatives of Batangas City Police Station for saving the victim. Your timely response foiled yet another kidnapping incident involving Chinese Nationals.
"Such atrocities should not proliferate in our region. We should strengthen our intelligence efforts and maintain police presence in the streets as a deterrent to possible kidnapping and other crimes.
"I want immediate progress in this case and also, I want these kidnappers to be arrested. We cannot tolerate these criminals who victimized innocent civilians for their own gain."
