Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Maguindanao cops hunting down 2 men in murder of 2 soldiers

From the Philippine News Agency (Mar 4): Maguindanao cops hunting down 2 men in murder of 2 soldiers

The Maguindanao Philippine National Police has launched a province-wide manhunt against two teenagers who shot dead two soldiers in Barangay Poblacion here Monday night, police said Wednesday.

”We have information of their whereabouts, we are talking to the suspects’ parents for them to surrender peacefully,” Senior Inspector Sarico Akmad, Buldon town police chief.

Akmad said Corporal Nerger Pinero of Libungan, North Cotabato, and PFC Jamalil Bolaybolay of Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte, were in civilian clothes but Pinero was carrying his M-16 Armalite rifle while Bolaybolay was unarmed.

As the two soldiers were approaching the market place, two teenagers appeared from behind and shot Pinero in the head. Bolaybolay tried to grab Pinero’s rifle but he too was shot.

Civilians rushed the victims to a hospital in Parang, Maguindanao where they were pronounced dead.

Akmad described the suspects as about 18 to 20 years old and one of them was armed with cal. 45 pistol.

”The motive was clearly ‘agaw-armas’ but we are also looking at other motives,” Akmad said.

Buldon was not part of the areas where a massive law enforcement operation is being conducted by the military in Maguindanao.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=741118

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