A security and monitoring personnel of a mining firm was
shot dead after a vehicle was burned by an armed group at a coastal town of a
southern province in the region, Wednesday morning.
Reports from Surigao del Sur Provincial Police reaching the
regional headquarters here on Thursday said that a certain Jasmine P. Ontua,
50; a resident of Purok 6, Guinhalinan, Barobo town in Surigao del Sur reported
to Barobo Municipal Police Station that her husband Anie M. Ontua, alias
"Loloy" 35; employee of Philsaga Mining Corporation as monitoring and
security personnel was shot dead by about 10 heavily armed men believed to be
members of the rebel group under the New People's Army Guerilla Front Committee
14 led by an alias "Jemboy."
Barobo Police immediately proceeded to the crime scene to
conduct investigation of the incident in coordination with the 131st Regional
Public Safety Company based in Cutlog, of the said town, the 75th Infantry
Battalion Philippine Army based in Scaling, Bislig City
Police investigators disclosed that about 6:00 p.m. on
Tuesday, Ontua's wife Jasmine, told them that the armed men arrived in their
house and introduced themselves as NPAs. The suspects accordingly dragged the
victim behind their house after tying his hands with a rope and stuffing his
mouth with a piece of cloth.
Mrs. Ontua said the suspects took a chainsaw which they
found in the place and took her cellular phone and pushed the victim inside the
Elf truck owned by a certain Cesar Ontua which was parked nearby. As the
suspects left with the victim with them on board the truck, they left a word to
the wife in Visayan dialect "Ayaw lang ug kabalaka kay amoa rang
estoryahon ang imong bana," (Don't worry, we'll just have conversation
with your husband). The armed men then ordered the driver Enrico Campohan to
proceed towards to a road in Brgy. Guinhalinan, and minutes later, several gunshots
were heard coming from the direction of the location of the Elf truck.
Sometime thereafter, the driver of the Elf truck went back
to the place where the victim's wife was and told her that he was commanded by
the suspects to disembark from the vehicle and to leave the place. The driver
told the wife that he saw one of the suspects fire at the tank of the vehicle
before he left the place of incident. The wife of the victim reported the
incident to the police who immediately proceeded to the crime scene and found
the dead body of the victim with gunshot wounds on various parts of his body
about 5 meters away from the burned Elf truck.
Recovered by the responding policemen at the crime scene
were three spent shells of Caliber .45 pistol and three spent shells of a shot
gun. The evidences were brought to Barobo Police Station for proper
disposition.
The cadaver of the victim was brought to a funeral home in San Francisco
A thorough investigation of the incident is now being
conducted by the Barobo police.
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