By JOEY NACALABAN
and NITZ ARANCON
Correspondents .
TWO siblings, suspected to be shabu peddlers, were killed after they allegedly tried to fight off the police with a grenade in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental shortly before midnight on Tuesday.
Chief Insp. Allan Oniana, Tagoloan police chief, identified the slain suspects as Jeffrey and Gerry Jandayan of Kimaya, Jasaan, Misamis Oriental. They were killed by the police at Karampil in Barangay Baluarte at around 11 pm.
Police alleged that one of the siblings attempted to explode a grenade at the police.
The victims, who were farmers, succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds.
Senior Supt. Rolando Destura, police director in Misamis Oriental, confirmed that the suspects were armed with a grenade and fired shots at the police with a caliber .38 revolver.
Police claimed the farmers had 23 sachets of suspected shabu and a P500- “marked money.”
Destura said 20 sachets were with Jeffrey while three others were with Gerry.
Destura accused the dead farmers of being known drug peddlers in Jasaan, Villanueva, Tagoloan, Balingasag, and even in Cagayan de Oro.
Destura also accused the dead men of being involved robbery and gunrunning operations.
But Liezel Jandayan, Gerry’s wife, said her husband never sold illegal drugs in their nine years of marriage.
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