Ex-Bataan radio volunteer killed

MORONG, Bataan — A former volunteer of the dzRH Operation Tulong in Bataan was shot dead by two suspected hit men of the Rebolusyonaryong Hukbong Bayan (RHB), a breakaway communist group, here last Saturday afternoon, police said.

The victim, Garciano Aquino, a staff member of the Central Luzon Forum based in Balanga City, was on his way home to Barangay Binaritan here when he was attacked.

Police said the RHB gunmen tailed Aquino after he and some friends had stayed in a tupada (illegal cockpit) for a few hours.

When he reached a secluded street, the rebels rushed toward him and shot him in the nape with a caliber .45 automatic, killing him on the spot.

Reports said Aquino was a police informer in this town, considered to be an RHB stronghold.

Aquino was a member of the Bataan Media Force composed of local print and broadcast journalists.

The Bataan Press Club has called on the police to speed up their investigation into Aquino’s killing. — With Cecille Suerte Felipe