Major Gen. Edmundo Pangilinan, commander of the 6th Infantry
Division, has directed the military's 602nd Infantry Brigade based in Carmen, North Cotabato to provide full support and assistance to
the local police following a massacre of a family four Monday night.
Pangilinan directed newly promoted Brig. Gen. Noel Clement,
602nd brigade chief, to assist the Carmen PNP in pursuing the gunmen who killed
four and injured three others in the village
of Ugalingan
Unidentified gunmen strafed the house of Agal family in the
village, killing Ibrahim Agal, 50, his children Mustafa, 12, Pama, 10 and
Sarah, 9, all residents of the Barangay Ugalingan.
Chief Inspector Julius Malcontento, Carmen PNP chief, said
the early evening attack also injured Ibrahim's other children, identified as
Nashrudin, 9, Mokamad, 18 and brother Jerry, 42.
Citing initial investigation report, police said the victims
were all inside the Agal compound in Barangay Ugalingan when gunmen arrived on
motorbikes and opened fire, using high caliber firearms.
Malcontento said two of the victims died instantly while
others expired at the North Cotabato provincial hospital in Kidapawan City
Supt. Bernard Tayong, North Cotabato
police provincial director, said the incident could have been triggered by a
long standing family feud involving Agal family and an unidentified clan in the
village.
Following the incident, joint police and Army personnel have
established more checkpoints on all the entry and exit points of town which
borders North Cotabato and Bukidnon.
Witnesses said the victims migrated to Barangay Ugalingan
from another village, also in Carmen, due to clan war.
Manhunt operation is still going on.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=827951
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