By Nora Soriño and Tomasita Asequia
ILIGAN City––“We did not hear a sound.”
Saray barangay chair Myla Fuentes yesterday said this over the shocking news about the shooting deaths of eight people in her village on Sunday.
Police said the killings were related to an ongoing “war” between crime groups behind the illegal drug trade here.
Fuentes said no one knew about the shootings until a trisikad with one of the victims passed her and other villagers who were working on Christmas decorations. The trisikad driver rushed the wounded person to the E&R Hospital.
Police said the assailants used caliber .45 pistols fitted with silencers.
Fuentes said she asked a member of the barangay tanod to go after the trisikad, and it was only then that she learned what happened.
Police identified the victims as Pedro Lumayaga a. k. a. “Kidaw,” Bryan Cubilla of Kanaway, Balong Katilok of Saray, Tata Gabriel, Ariel Lumayaga, Narciso Lumayaga, Antonio Marca and Ariel Pabalate, all of this city.
Investigators said two gunmen came and shot the victims in Lumayaga’s house at around 12:45 am Sunday in Saray.
The gunmen fled the crime scene on motorcycles driven by their companions who served as lookouts.
Police said five of the victims died on the spot, and three others were rushed to a hospital but were declared dead on arrival.
The bodies have yet to be claimed at the Capin Funeral Parlor at presstime.
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