A soaking wet man, bound and suffering from stab wounds, crawled from Philadelphia's Schuylkill River after he and two other men were abducted, attacked, robbed and dumped into the water, police said.
The other two victims never made it out of the river.
Philadelphia Police rushed to the water along Kelly Drive near Hunting Park Avenue in Fairmount Park around 4 a.m. Wednesday after someone called 911 to report a partially-dressed injured man screaming along the roadway.
When authorities arrived on the scene, they found the man, identified by NBC10 sources as 20-year-old Thanh Voong, soaking wet and suffering from multiple stab wounds to his stomach and legs. His arms and legs were partially bound and he had duct tape on his face.
Police rushed Voong to Hahnemann University Hospital, where he underwent surgery for seven stab wounds while listed in stable condition, according to officials.
Investigators found two bodies submerged in the water -- both bound with tape and tied or tethered to some sort of anchor.
Police using flashlights taped off an area along the river and searched for clues about what happened. Police dive teams finally recovered the bodies, which could be seen in about 5 to 10 feet of water, around 8:30 a.m.
Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said the victim told investigators that four or five men abducted him near 62nd Street and Woodland Avenue in Southwest Philly and threw him into the back of van around 1 a.m.
"While in the back of the van he was blindfold, he was stabbed numerous times, he was robbed of an undisclosed amount of money," said Small. "He says that while in the back of the van he then realized that there were two other males in the back of the van... they were duct taped and they appeared to have been stabbed numerous times."
Voong was unsure whether the two men with him in the vehicle were alive or dead, according to investigators.
Detectives are reviewing surveillance video that captured the area near where the abduction took place in hopes of finding the van and the suspects.
Voong somehow climbed out of the water, said Small.
An initial investigation showed that the men were dragged across the concrete and grass before being dumped in the river, according to police on the scene.
Small said that robbery was the motive.
Police responded to the victim's Northern Liberties home where they found blood. Investigators planned to get a search warrant for the home.
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