No solid clues yet on killing of activist

BALANGA CITY — Police are still clueless on the gunslaying of the provincial coordinator of the Bataan Alliance of Teachers Association-Alliance of Concerned Teachers here last Thursday afternoon.

Chief Inspector Luisito Magnaye, intelligence and investigation head of the Bataan police, told The STAR that Senior Superintendent Hernando Zafra, Bataan police director, has ordered police units to coordinate their efforts to identify and arrest the killers of Analiza Abanador, 33, also a provincial leader of the Kapisanan Para sa Pambansang Demokratiko.

Probers are looking into the possibility that the intense rivalry between the communist breakaway group Rebolusyonaryong Hukbong Bayan (RHB) and the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) triggered the killing.

Abanador and her live-in partner, Harold Gadian, reportedly had links with the RHB.

Magnaye, however, said they are not discounting other motives, adding that they are evaluating reports of the past involvement of Abanador and Gadian with labor unions at the Bataan Economic Zone in Mariveles town.