Police still clueless on Maguindanao town ambush
January 21, 2013 | 11:58am
COTABATO CITY, Philippines --- The police remain clueless on Saturday’s near fatal ambush in Talitay town in Maguindanao of a local official in a daring attack that also left his security escort dead.
Musanip Buisan, chairman of Barangay Poblacion in Talitay and president of the Association of Barangay Chairman (ABC) in the municipality, was wounded in his lower abdomen and is now undergoing medication at the Notre Dame Hospital here.
Buisan, as Talitay’s ABC president, is ex-officio member of the municipal council.
Buisan, accompanied by relatives, among them Gantukan Buisan, were on board a tricycle bound for the town proper of Talitay from a nearby town when their ambushers emerged from one side of the road and shot them with assault rifles.
Gantukan died on the spot.
Police investigators said the ambushers fled after shooting the victims.
Investigators are certain the target of the ambush was Buisan.
Musanip is a supporter of Talitay mayoral candidate Neil Sinsuat, a brother of Maguindanao First District Rep. Sandra Sema.
Col. Dickson Hermoso, spokesman of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, military intelligence agents are now helping the police investigate on the incident.
Hermoso said their commander, Major Gen. Caesar Ronnie Ordoyo, has directed all military units in Talitay and surrounding towns to step up efforts to enforce the gun ban being imposed since January 13 by the Commission on Elections.
Two security escorts of Sonny Kadil, chairman of Barangay Pantar in Banisilan town in North Cotabato were also killed in an ambush last week.
Kadil and his bodyguards were on their way to Midsayap, North Cotabato on board separate motorcycles when their attackers blocked their path and opened fire with M-16 rifles.
Kadil survived the ambush unscathed but his escorts, Takanda Mamukao and Muslimin Ampuan, died on the spot from multiple gunshot wounds.
Hermoso said the Army’s 40th Infantry Battalion, which has jurisdiction over Banisilan town, has dispatched more soldiers to Banisilan to help the local police prevent a repeat of the incident. - John Unson
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