From the Philippine News Agency (Apr 19, 2023): Suspected rebels shoot 2 civilians dead in Negros Oriental (By Mary Judaline Partlow)
INVESTIGATION. Police investigators process the crime scene where two civilians were shot dead Tuesday night (April 18, 2023) in a remote village in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental province. Suspected New People's Army rebels are believed to have perpetrated the crime. (Photo courtesy of the Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office)
DUMAGUETE CITY – Suspected members of the New People’s Army shot and killed two civilians in the mountainous Barangay Trinidad in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental close to midnight Tuesday.
The victims were identified as 24-year-old Juven Patagatay Pasinabo, resident of Barangay Trinidad; and Jinny Boy Rapol Tubias, 29, of Barangay Montelya; both of Moises Padilla town in Negros Occidental province.
Reports said the two victims were attending a fiesta celebration in the remote Sition Cambairan in Barangay Trinidad, around 42 kilometers away from the city proper, when four armed men believed to be NPA rebels, arrived.
Two of the suspects approached Pasinabo, who was sitting in a chair, and shot him several times.
The suspects, according to witnesses, shouted in Cebuano “NPA mi, hapa ang walay labot” (We are NPAs, those who have nothing to do with this, duck!).
Pasinabo died on the spot due to multiple gunshot wounds.
Tubias, an employee of the Guihulngan local government unit (LGU), on the other hand, did not drop and rather gave instructions to the person in charge of the sound system to shut it down.
The other two armed men dragged him to a dark area where he was shot and killed.
Lt. Col. Romeo Cubo, Guihulngan police chief, said the second victim was just collateral damage while Pasinabo was previously arrested during massive police operations a few years back for illegal possession of firearms.
Cubo said they are still trying to determine the motive in the killing of Pasinabo.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1199768
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