Five suspected drug dealers killed in Cotabato City raids
March 26, 2018 | 3:55pm
Police Regional Office 12 is based in General Santos City, South Cotabato. (PRO-12, file)
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Five suspected drug traffickers were killed in separate anti-narcotics operations in Cotabato City on Sunday.
Chief Inspector Aldrin Gonzalez, information officer of the Police Regional Office-12, said Monday the first to fall was Sadat Gampong, who was killed by police agents in a brief shootout.
Gampong, a barangay councilor, was a high-value target of the Cotabato City police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.
Gonzalez said the police team that raided Gampong's house was forced to neutralize him when he pulled out a gun and opened fire.
Four others — Datukong Mamadra, Zaldy Saptula, Jumlah Andong and a still unidentified man — were shot dead by police agents who raided their hideouts. They were said to have resisted arrest.
Gonzalez said the operations that resulted in the deaths of the five suspected drug dealers were led by the city's police director, Senior Superintendent Rolly Octavio.
Investigators are still trying to identify another man who was killed in one of the four encounters last Sunday.
The anti-narcotics operations by the city police on Sunday were covered by separate search and arrest warrants issued by Judge Alandrex Betoya of the Regional Trial Court Branch 16 in nearby North Cotabato province.
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