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By LITO RULONA
Correspondent

A PROVINCIAL board over the weekend called for an investigation into a the recent shooting deaths in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, fearing that a “death squad” could be behind the attacks.

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Provincial board member Gerardo Sabal III said he would urge Vice Gov. Jose Mari Pelaez to call for meeting of the board’s committee on police and public safety and conduct an investigation into the brutal killings. Pelaez is the committee’s chairman.

He said the committee should summon officials of the Misamis Oriental Police Office and the Tagoloan municipal police so they could shed light on what appeared like summary killings in the hometown of Gov. Yevgeny Vincente Emano.

Sabal said he was preparing to bring the matter to the attention of the provincial board this week, saying there were suspicions that what happened in Tagoloan were summary executions by a “death squad.”

On Thursday night, unidentified gunmen barged into the homes of two men in the police watchlist and riddled them with bullets in front of their families.

“Last Wednesday na pud usa nga gipusil sulod sa iyang kuwarto while natulog. Gipasulod lang sa bangag ang pusil,” Sabal said.

He said he became more alarmed because the common law wife of one of the victims suffered an aborted pregnancy after she was hit by a bullet, and their four-year old son was also wounded.

Police identified the fatalities in the Thursday attacks as Rommel Jimenez, 46, of Zone 6, Lower Tinugon, Barangay Mohon, and Walter Quinquiño of Sitio Ganhaan, Barangay Sta. Cruz, both in Tagoloan.

Quinquiño’s common law wife Jessa Tequillo, who was three months pregnant, was hit by a bullet in the womb, and lost her baby while their four-year old son was hit by a bullet in the left leg.

A day earlier, 28-year old Ricky Casiño Ocero of Barangay Sta. Ana, Tagoloan was shot to death while he was sleeping inside his house. He succumbed to two gunshot wounds in the head.

“Dili na kini pwede nga ato pa kining palabyon kay nagkadaghan na ang gipangpatay,” Sabal said. “Ang nakadaut ani kay blatant kaayo ang pagpatay in front pa gyud sa ilang pamilya,” he said.

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