The Cagayan police are readying the filing of robbery and murder charges against 30 suspected New People’s Army rebels involved the killing of Gonzaga town mayor Carlito Pentecostes on Monday.
Police Senior Supt. Gregorio Lim, Cagayan provincial police director, said he has ordered an “intensified probe” into the incident, and as such would lead to the immediate resolution of the case and the immediate capture of the culprits.
Reports said mayor Pentecostes was about to deliver his speech during the flag ceremony at the town hall grounds when four men wearing camouflage green uniforms approached the mayor and shot him several times, causing his instant death.
The other heavily-armed men wearing PNP and Army camouflage uniforms with black berets also accosted and the policemen present and captured their firearms during the flag-raising ceremony.
Reports also said that the suspected rebels flagged down the Gonzaga patrol car and at gun point, directed the police operatives to drop on the ground, tied their hands and thereafter took their service firearms.
After the attack, the suspects ransacked the second floor of the town hall and scurried away with a several valuables and cash, taking with them the PNP patrol car, an L-300 van, a blue Elf truck, and a multi-cab service vehicle of the water district and fled towards Barangay Isca, also of Gonzaga municipality.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=636968
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