Police authorities in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao today
sent a peacekeeping team to pacify relatives of a village chairman and four
others killed in an ambush Tuesday.
Michael Sinsuat Dalidig, chairman of Barangay Dimapatoy,
barangay councilor Jonathan Benito, his spouse and their two children, died
from multiple gunshot wounds sustained in the 6 p.m. attack along a dirt road
in Quarry Site, Barangay Dimapatoy.
According to Senior Insp. Tulon Pinguiaman, Datu Odin
Sisutat town police chief, said the victims were on their way home on board a
multicab vehicle from the Quarry side when gunmen who positioned themselves on
both sides of the dirt road surrounded by tall cogon grass opened fire.
Police recovered 200 pieces of empty shells at the crime
scene.
“Our investigators are still determining the identities of
the suspects, although a lot of names have come up," Pinguiaman said.
Relatives of the victims believed an old grudge triggered
the ambush or it could be work related, police said.
Pinguiaman told reporters he sent emissaries to the victims'
respective families to convince them to refrain from retaliating and to give
the local police enough time to finish its investigation and file charges
against the suspects.
The victims have been buried according to Islamic rites.
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