2 killed, village chief hurt in North Cotabato ambush
Reports reaching the North Cotabato provincial police office said the fatalities died on the spot from multiple gunshot wounds in an ambush Friday, Dec. 9, 2016 in Banisilan, North Cotabato. Philstar.com/Bing Maps
KIDAPAWAN CITY — Two were killed while five others, one of them a barangay chairman, were badly hurt in an ambush Friday in the hinterland Banisilan town in North Cotabato.
Reports reaching the North Cotabato provincial police office here said the fatalities, Lumayun Pukut Alayudan and Alinor Mantikayan, died on the spot from multiple gunshot wounds.
The wounded villagers, Panamtaon Mantikayan, his relative identified only as Beduh, Sarah Tekumeh, and siblings Moy and Mohaimen Saligan, were immediately rushed to a hospital by responding barangay leaders and policemen, according to Senior Superintendent Emmanuel Peralta and Banisilan's municipal police chief Senior Inspector Jojie Barutas.
Mantikayan is incumbent chairman of Barangay Busaon, a secluded area northeast of Banisilan. The barangay accounts for most number of still unsettled clan wars involving Moro families in the municipality.
The victims were riding a vehicle together en route to the office of the North Cotabato provincial governor in Barangay Amas in Kidapawan City when the suspects, positioned at one side of the road linking their barangay to the municipal center of Banisilan, shot them with assault rifles.
The suspects fled immediately after the shooting frenzy.
The spokesman of the provincial police, Superintendent Bernard Tayong, said investigators had been directed to identify the culprits and build an airtight criminal case against them.
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