CAFGU member slain in North Cotabato NPA attack

From the Philippine News Agency (Jan 3): CAFGU member slain in North Cotabato NPA attack

A member of the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) was killed in what the police said was a "daring attack" by suspected members of the New People's Army (NPA) in Magpet, North Cotabato, around 1:30 p.m., Thursday. Sr. Insp. Sunny Leoncito, chief of Magpet Philippine National Police (PNP), identified the victim as Dino Lacia, a CAFGU member under the 38th Infantry Battalion and a resident of Barangay Manobisa, Magpet.

The victim, wearing civilian clothes with no gun tucked in his waist, was waiting for his two children at a terminal located at crossing Matas in Poblacion, Magpet, when two suspects, armed with caliber 45 pistols, pumped bullets onto his head, chest, and back. The gunmen did not cover their heads when they carried out the killing, according to Leoncito. After the killing, the suspects rode on a Baja motorcycle parked just a few meters away from a thickly-populated terminal.

Leoncito was certain the NPAs executed the killing. He admitted Lacia was among the many informants they hired to update them of the peace and order situation in the hinterlands. Lacia’s children were shocked to see their father lying dead on the floor. The victim’s son had traveled all the way from Arakan town, also in North Cotabato, and his daughter from Barangay Kamada in Magpet, to be with their father in going home to Barangay Manobisa for a much-awaited family affair.

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