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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Ambush in Marilog kills engineer, son
By Rex C. Otero
POLICE are still trying to determine the motive, whether it's envy or ideology, which killed a civil engineer and his son in Marilog district last Sunday.
Davao City Police Office chief Catalino Cuy said he has already ordered a deeper investigation on the death of Engineer Joseph Fernandez, 48, and his son Rocky, 23, residents of Digos City.
The two went to Barangay Salaysay in Marilog to visit a 200-hectare plot of land that the elder Fernandez was said to have acquired.
Land in Marilog is still not alienable and disposable and that the common practice, is to acquire the rights to occupy the untitled land.
The police have one witness, Lito Ganadin, who drove the motorcycle that the duo rode on their way to their plot of land.
Ganadink in a television interview said, they were on their way to Salaysay when gunfires just burst out.
"Ako maoy una nakalukso (I was able to jump off first)," according to Ganadin.
The witness added that as the father and son fell, wounded, the armed men approached and finished them off.
Police are working on two angles. The duo was killed by the New People's Army or because of envy by some unknown person on the large tract of land Fernandez was able to get hold of.
The bodies of the victims have already been brought to the Angel Funeral Parlor in Digos City.
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