Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Police identify Tawi-Tawi broadcaster slay suspect (8:20 p.m.)
ZAMBOANGA CITY –- The police in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm) have already identified the gunman behind the ambush-slaying of a state-run broadcaster in the province of Tawi-Tawi.
Two other people, including another staff of the Philippine Broadcast Service’s dxDC-Radyo ng Bayan-Tawi-Tawi, were wounded during the incident last Monday in the town of Bongao.
Chief Superintendent Joel Goltiao, Armm police director, said the gunman is identified as Nur Suang, who is also implicated in a previous shooting incident.
Goltiao said a manhunt operation is going on in the towns of Bongao, the province’s capital, and in the nearby island municipality of Sanga-Sanga, where the suspect is believed to be hiding.
Vicente Sumalpong, 36, production supervisor of dxDC, died from multiple gunshot wounds while his co-broadcaster, Vema Antham, 40 and nephew, Roilan Borja, were wounded in the ambush. (Bong Garcia/Sunnex)
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