A member of the Civilian Auxiliary Army and Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) was seriously wounded while his 17-year-old son was killed in an ambush by still unidentified men in the town of Arakan, North Cotabato Saturday afternoon.
Arakan police chief Sr. Insp. Sunny Leoncito identified the CAFGU member as Roger Fordan Sr., a resident of Makalangot, Arakan and his son, Roger Jr., a high school student, who were waylaid while on their motorcycle, travelling from Doroluman, Arakan on their way home.
The militiaman sustained a gunshot wound and was in serious condition when rushed to a hospital in Kidapawan City but Roger Jr. was riddled with three shots to the body that killed him instantly.
Leoncito, in an interview with the Manila Bulletin here on Sunday morning said Fordan and his son were already near their village in Barangay Makalangot when they were ambushed.
He refused to identify the group behind the ambush as the police were still investigating the case.
But the Army’s 10th Infantry Division , which has jurisdictional responsibility over the area, believed that communist New People’s Army (NPA) rebels were behind the ambush.
Other sources told the Manila Bulletin that the ambush could have been connected to the murder of a peasant leader in the same area earlier this week.
On Monday, August 17, Joel Gumatico, secretary-general of Arakan Progressive Peasant Organization (APPO), was gunned down by unidentified men riding in-tandem in Naje, Arakan.
The police are yet to identify the perpetrators to the series of killings in the area.
http://www.mb.com.ph/cafgu-mans-son-killed-in-ambush/
Arakan police chief Sr. Insp. Sunny Leoncito identified the CAFGU member as Roger Fordan Sr., a resident of Makalangot, Arakan and his son, Roger Jr., a high school student, who were waylaid while on their motorcycle, travelling from Doroluman, Arakan on their way home.
The militiaman sustained a gunshot wound and was in serious condition when rushed to a hospital in Kidapawan City but Roger Jr. was riddled with three shots to the body that killed him instantly.
He refused to identify the group behind the ambush as the police were still investigating the case.
Other sources told the Manila Bulletin that the ambush could have been connected to the murder of a peasant leader in the same area earlier this week.
http://www.mb.com.ph/cafgu-mans-son-killed-in-ambush/
This incident is probably insurgency related. Arakan has long been an area contested by the New People's Army (NPA), the military wing of the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the Philippine military.
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