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Thursday, June 28, 2007
Police identify suspect in broadcaster’s slay
By Bong Garcia
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm) police have identified the gunman in the killing of a government radio broadcaster in the province of Tawi-Tawi.
Two of the broadcaster's companions, including another staff of the Philippine Broadcast Service's radio dxDC or Radyo ng Bayan-Tawi-Tawi, were wounded during last Monday's incident in the town of Bongao.
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Chief Superintendent Joel Goltiao, Armm police director, identified the gunman 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 his nephew Roilan Borja were wounded in the ambush.
They were on a motorcycle and were on their way to the radio station Monday morning when fired upon with automatic rifle in Barangay Nalil, Bongao.
Goltiao said Antham tagged Suang as the one who ambushed them.
"That's what she told us during the initial investigation," Goltiao said Wednesday.
He said Suang has been implicated in the killing of a guest relations officer (GRO) last week in Sanga-Sanga.
He said Sumalpong could have earned the ire of Suang since the slain broadcaster had assisted the victim's family in the case against the suspect. (Sunnex)
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