SCIENCE CITY OF MUNOZ, Nueva Ecija -- Five
people were killed in an encounter with lawmen in a Philippine National
Police-Commission on Elections (PNP-Comelec) checkpoint in Barangay Sapang
Cauayan here at about 3 a.m. Monday.
Senior Supt. Manuel Cornel, Nueva Ecija police director,
said police have yet to establish the identities of the fatalities.
Cornel said 15 personnel from the Regional Public Safety
Battalion (RPSB) and the local police led by Supt. Ponciano Zafra were conducting
checkpoint when they noticed a speeding tricycle.
When flagged down for inspection, Cornel said “they even
increased their speed and hit the Comelec checkpoint signage and fired upon the
police officers manning the checkpoint.”
All five of the suspects were killed during the exchange of
fire, he said.
No one was hurt on the part of the lawmen even as the police
patrol was hit by bullet from the suspects.
Investigators have yet to recover the unspecified caliber of
handgun used by the suspects.
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