About 20 armed men equipped with high powered firearms shot dead a village chief in another remote
Reports from Agusan del Sur reaching police regional headquarters here signed by Senior Supt. Alexander J. Sampaga, Provincial Director of Agusan del Sur Police Regional Office 13, identified the victim as Brgy. Capt. Ramon Diagonon of Barangay Kauswagan of the said town.
The report mentioned that the assailants were believed to be members of the communist New People's Army belonging to the Guerilla Front-34 under the command of a certain alias "Bodoy".
The victim was in front of his residence when the suspects arrived and shot him several times. Diagonon was hit on the different parts of his body and died on the spot. The assailants fled to the nearby forested area after the shooting.
Loreto Mayor Dario Otaza in a local radio interview Monday morning confirmed the killing of Diagonon saying the latter was not only one who received threat from the communist guerillas but all his 21 barangay chiefs. He already had a meeting with them in order to discuss safety and security measures to counter the threat.
"In the light of these recent developments, we know now that they are not ready to do their part of the bargain. So what we have come up in the discussions during the meeting is to request the police and military to have a detachment of either police, military or para-military in every village of our town" Otaza said.
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