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Monday, May 30, 2005 (Philippines)
| Superintendent Efren Alcuizar inspects the marijuana plants uprooted in a raid conducted by his men during his term as chief of Narcotics Command (Narcom) Region 11. He succumbed on Sunday to a lone gunshot wound, which the police attributed to accidental firing. (Sun.Star Davao file photo) |
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POLICE Superintendent Efren Alcuizar, until last month the regional director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Region 12, passed away Sunday morning, a victim of his own gun.
Alcuizar was pronounced dead by his doctors at around 2 a.m. inside the intensive care unit of the Davao Doctors' Hospital where he was confined for a gunshot wound, which he reportedly sustained when one of his guns accidentally fired.
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