PAGADIAN CITY – Security forces on Monday afternoon intercepted two trucks full of gunmen in Pagadian City in the southern Philippine province of Zamboanga del Sur.
Soldiers and policemen seized assorted automatic weapons, mostly rifles, from the passengers after stopping the vehicles in the village of Danlugan.
Both vehicles had no license plates and many of those intercepted were using bonnets, according to a man who witnessed when security forces stopped the trucks and interrogated the drivers.
“These people were all using bonnets. Their vehicles have no plate numbers and its conduction stickers were covered by a tape,” said the witness, who took video from his cell phone and uploaded it on Facebook page BM Marlyn Revelo.
At least 15 people were ordered out of the vehicles as soldiers searched the trucks for weapons. The arrest of the men coincided with the election gun ban and heightened security in the country as Filipinos go to polls on May 13 to vote for new set of national and local government officials.
An unidentified army commander ordered passengers – in front of village officials, journalists and policemen, including an official from the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) – to disembark one by one from the trucks as he warned them of severe consequences if they resist violently or try to fight off security forces.
“We are searching your vehicle in front of the Barangay Captain, the COMELEC…isa-isa lang tayo bababa at kung gagawa kayo ng karahasan alam na po ninyo kung ano ang mangyayari sa inyo,” the commander said as soldiers surrounded the trucks.
The passengers, their hands raised in the air as a gesture of peaceful surrender, disembarked one by one as civilians watching not far away, cheered and clapped the soldiers who were leading the unidentified men in front of a makeshift table on the middle of the road. An army truck and several military vehicles were also spotted nearby.
The men were later frisked and searched by soldiers for any weapons and some of them yielded guns. Others carried what looked like talisman. The army official also called a police officer to read the (Miranda Warning) rights of those arrested.
Both the spokespersons of the 1st Infantry Division Lt. Col. Ray Tiongson and Major Helen Galvez, of the regional police, said they were still waiting for the official report.
The identities of the arrested gunmen were not immediately available.
https://mindanaoexaminer.com/security-forces-intercept-trucks-full-of-gunmen-in-pagadian-city/
Soldiers and policemen seized assorted automatic weapons, mostly rifles, from the passengers after stopping the vehicles in the village of Danlugan.
Both vehicles had no license plates and many of those intercepted were using bonnets, according to a man who witnessed when security forces stopped the trucks and interrogated the drivers.
“These people were all using bonnets. Their vehicles have no plate numbers and its conduction stickers were covered by a tape,” said the witness, who took video from his cell phone and uploaded it on Facebook page BM Marlyn Revelo.
An unidentified army commander ordered passengers – in front of village officials, journalists and policemen, including an official from the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) – to disembark one by one from the trucks as he warned them of severe consequences if they resist violently or try to fight off security forces.
“We are searching your vehicle in front of the Barangay Captain, the COMELEC…isa-isa lang tayo bababa at kung gagawa kayo ng karahasan alam na po ninyo kung ano ang mangyayari sa inyo,” the commander said as soldiers surrounded the trucks.
The passengers, their hands raised in the air as a gesture of peaceful surrender, disembarked one by one as civilians watching not far away, cheered and clapped the soldiers who were leading the unidentified men in front of a makeshift table on the middle of the road. An army truck and several military vehicles were also spotted nearby.
The men were later frisked and searched by soldiers for any weapons and some of them yielded guns. Others carried what looked like talisman. The army official also called a police officer to read the (Miranda Warning) rights of those arrested.
Both the spokespersons of the 1st Infantry Division Lt. Col. Ray Tiongson and Major Helen Galvez, of the regional police, said they were still waiting for the official report.
The identities of the arrested gunmen were not immediately available.
https://mindanaoexaminer.com/security-forces-intercept-trucks-full-of-gunmen-in-pagadian-city/
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