GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- Three suspected members of a notorious gun-for-hire group were killed in a joint police and Army operation early Friday at Polomolok town in South Cotabato.
Sr. Supt. Franklin Alvero, South Cotabato police director, said the suspects were slain in a shootout with government operatives at past 2 a.m. at a portion of Barangay Koronadal Proper in Polomolok.
Armed with 11 search warrants, he said the operatives launched simultaneous raids against nine targets, including a house that supposedly serves as a base of a gun-for-hire group.
The raid was led by elements from the Police Regional Office-12's Regional Public Safety Battalion, Special Action Force, Polomolok municipal police station and the Army's 27th Infantry Battalion.
But during the operation, Alvero said the suspects reportedly resisted and fired at the raiding team, leading to brief firefight.
He identified the slain suspects as Sadam Macabangin, Mudja Adam and Allan Ewa, all residents of the village.
"According to reports, these suspects were involved in various illegal activities, including drugs," he said in an interview over radio station Brigada News FM in Koronadal City.
He said the group was also eyed as behind a string of armed robbery incidents and killings in the area.
Alvero added that the investigation is ongoing as to the involvement of the suspects in other illegal activities in Polomolok and the neighboring areas.(PNA) DECEMBER 2017
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