Google map of Magpet town, North Cotabato.
COTABATO CITY – Suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) shot dead on Friday a farmer allegedly doubling as a military informer in Magpet, North Cotabato.
Col. Maximo Layugan, North Cotabato police director, identified the victim as Rogelio Pasinabao Debalid, 49, of Sitio Buay-Buay, Barangay Basak, Magpet.
Layugan said the farmer, together with his teenage son, was attending to his farm lot in Sitio Natayucan, Barangay Balite, Magpet, when approached by two men and shot him at close range.
The victim died on the spot but his son was spared by the gunmen.
The son later told authorities that the gunmen, before leaving the place, introduced themselves as members of the NPA Guerilla Front Committee 53 operating in the border of North Cotabato and Davao del Sur provinces.
Recovered from the scene were eight empty shells from cal. 45 pistol used by the gunmen in the shooting.
Initial investigation revealed that the NPAs have long suspected the farmer as a military informer in the area, police said.
Layugan said a deeper probe is underway to determine the identities of the killers based on the description by the locals.
Several countries, particularly the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Philippines, have listed the NPA, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, as a terrorist organization.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1080482
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