Police hunt pa, son over cop's murder in NCotabato

KORONADAL CITY, Philippines ---- Intelligence operatives of Army units in North Cotabato have joined the search for a father and son that killed Wednesday a policeman sent to serve the supects warrants of arrest for illegal possession of firearms and explosives.

Text messages have been circulating since Thursday morning claiming that the suspects, the father and his adolescent son,   armed with gauge 12 combat shotguns, have both sought refuge in a camp of the New People’s Army at the border of North Cotabato and Bukidnon.

The suspects killed with shotguns SPO2 Eldorado Dollosa while trying to serve them warrants in Barangay Greenhills in President Roxas town in the second district of North Cotabato.

Dollosa died on the spot from pellet wounds in the head and different parts of his body.

Dolosa, accompanied by barangay watchmen and community leaders in Barangay Greenhills, was knocking at the house of the suspects when he was attacked.

The suspects have long been in hiding, but  appeared at Barangay Greenhills a day before the incident.

The local police learned of their presence in the area from neighbors.

Senior Inspector Marlo Dolar, chief of the President Roxas municipal police, said the suspects escaped through the backdoor and fled toward a nearby corn farm.

Policemen and civilian volunteers have launched a massive hunt for the duo.

Operatives of the Army’s 57th Infantry Battalion, based in Makilala, North Cotabato and the 603rd Brigade in Carmen town in the first district of the province, are now helping Dolar and his men search for the suspects.