Blast suspect shot, abducted

DAVAO CITY — A man tagged in twin blasts here in 2003 but was later released due to insufficient evidence was shot by unidentified men inside his home in Davao del Norte and dragged to a van last Monday, authorities said.

There is reportedly no word yet on the fate of Abdul Rahman Camile, 34, alias Barok, who was seized from his home in Barangay Madaum in Tagum City.

Both the police and the military have denied any hand in Camile’s disappearance.

Authorities said Camile was shot in the abdomen and leg and though profusely bleeding, was dragged to a waiting van.

He was tagged in the explosions that ripped through a waiting shed at the old Davao International Airport and the passenger terminal of the Sasa wharf here in 2003. He was also linked to a blast at a bus terminal in 2005.

But the court later freed him after the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines failed to present sufficient evidence against him.

Camile’s name surfaced again the other week in connection with a supposed bombing spree in key cities in Mindanao.