A village chieftain and a watchman were wounded in an attack
by still unidentified gunmen in a remote village in Lutayan town in Sultan
Kudarat province early Wednesday.
Senior Police Office 4 Abas Dimao, investigator of the
Lutayan municipal police station, said an undetermined number of armed men
massed up at a portion of Barangay Bayasong at around 4 a.m. and harassed local
residents.
He said several members of the barangay police action team
(BPAT) and barangay chair Falcon Bansil immediately responded to the scene but
were fired upon by the suspects.
Bansil and an unidentified BPAT member were hit in the first
volley of gunfire but only sustained minor wounds, he said.
The two are currently recuperating at the Doctor’s Clinic
and Hospital in nearby Koronadal
City
Dimao said they were still confirming the identities of the
suspects and their possible affiliation but according to sources they were led
by a certain Kumander Tigi.
He said a team from the Lutayan police station led by its
chief of police Senior Insp. Jerel Caranay and BPAT members have secured the
area trying to drive away the attackers.
“There’s a continuing firefight in the area as of the
moment,” he said in a radio interview at 8 a.m.
Dimao said they are still looking into the possible motive
of the incident, which triggered tension in the area.
But he said most parts of the village, which is around six
kilometers away from the town center, is already secure and all major roads
leading to the area were not affected by the incident.
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