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Badly-Beaten Abduction Victim Found Miles From Where He Was Taken: Police

Philadelphia Police found a badly beaten abduction victim believed to have been taken from a home miles away from where he was found.

It wasn’t clear what led to the abduction overnight.

Monday morning, officers could be seen responded an industrial property near the intersection of N 7th Street and W Chew Avenue. They said that the man was beaten at that location by a group of masked men.

The attack left the victim hospitalized.

The incident began with an abduction around 1 a.m. along the 2000 block of Cranston Road in the Wynnefield Heights section of the city — that’s more than six miles away, said police.

Police took at least one suspect into custody. Officers could also be seen guarding two cars that they said contained weapons parked at a Pathmark a short distance from whee the abduction began.

Investigators remained on the scenes Monday morning as Philadelphia detectives searched for clues.

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