PARANG,
Maguindanao --- Police killed three men who resisted arrest and traded shots
with law enforcers during the conduct of a checkpoint on election gun ban here
last April 16.
The
police later found out the suspects were wanted in connection with the murder
of a woman and a former village head here last month.
Superintendent
Ibrahim Jambiran, town police chief, said the three men, who were on board a
motorbike and armed with hand guns, traded shots with lawmen at around 11 a.m.
when flagged down at a checkpoint in Barangay Gumagadong Calawag.
“We
found out later they were linked to a series of shooting in the town,” Jambiran
said of slain suspects Abib Sarotsong, Acero Kibad, and Todto Pangalian, all of
Barangay Liong in Barira, Maguindanao.
Citing
police records, Jamiran said the suspects were involved in illegal drugs and
belonged to a gun-for-hire group responsible in the series of shooting here.
“We are
closely implementing the election gun ban,” he said, adding that intelligence
information showed the suspects were
armed to the teeth.
Recovered
from the slain suspects were two cal. 45 pistols and ammunition.
Relatives
quickly claimed their remains and buried them according to Islamic rites Monday.
(Edwin Fernandez, PNA - Cotabato)
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