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The Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO)
from
the Police Provincial
inspected the vehicle of the
victim shot
at the drainage canal near the gate of
the NFA
Office. (Photo by JONG CADION)
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By JONG CADION
June 25, 2013
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The Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO)
from
the Police Provincial
inspected the vehicle of the
victim shot
at the drainage canal near the gate of
the NFA
Office. (Photo by JONG CADION)
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PAGADIAN CITY – The
National Food Authority (NFA) employee survived in an ambush but his son was
declared by his attending physician as dead on arrival at the Pagadian City
Medical Center this early morning while they were approaching their office.
Police investigation
identified the victim as Sultan Radjak Bago, NFA employee who sustained
multiple gunshot wounds at the back of his body while his son Jameril “Jimmy”
Bago who is driving their car sustained fatal gunshot wounds at the head.
At about 8:00 am, the
victim while on their way from their residence at Upper Campo Islam, Labangan,
Zamboanga del Sur going to NFA office at Brgy. Tiguma, Pagadian City and upon
reaching few meters away approaching NFA office, two unidentified persons armed
with M16 armalite rifle sprayed them and another person waiting near beside the
NFA gate also fired at them in front using caliber 45 pistol, police
investigation said.
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The Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO)
from
the Police Provincial
inspected the vehicle of the
victim shot
at the drainage canal near the gate of
the NFA
Office. (Photo by JONG CADION)
|
After hitting the first burst, the
driver manage to drive the vehicle up to the gate of the NFA but the two
left side tire was shot at the drainage
canal beside the gate. The driver
was also hit by the bullets from the front by another suspect that made him failed
to control the steering wheel, the also witnesses disclosed.
Another victim
together with them boarded beside the driver identified only as their body
guard also wounded and a certain bystander identified only as a laborer of NFA
who was hit by the astray bullet at his leg were confined at the hospital.
The suspects aboard on
waiting single motorcycle as their getaway vehicle then fled immediately
towards east direction.
Pagadian City Police chief P/Supt. Julius
Muñez said that based in their initial investigation the motive incident is a
family feud or Rido.
This is the second NFA
employee who was shot in ambush. The first victim was Rosalinda Pajente y Buctan on January 16, 2010 while on her way to their office aboard a motorcycle
for hire (habal-habal) around 8 a.m. when two men riding on another motorcycle
chased her and the back rider shot her near a rice mill along the national
highway of Bgry. Tiguma.
Police said, one of the angles considered also
was the work related due to the previous incident.
Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) from
the Police Provincial Office recovered from the crime scene empty shells of M16
armalite rifle and caliber 45 and holster of caliber 45 pistol.
