Tipster on Iligan City drug exchange shot dead

         Another casualty in war on drugs. (CDN FILE PHOTO/ PHOTO FROM POLICE FILES)


ILIGAN CITY – A man who tipped police about unlawful medication exercises here, was shot dead in Barangay Saray around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, the police said Thursday.

Supt. Leony Roy Ga, the city police executive, said Ronald Fuentes was drinking with a few companions when assaulted by conceal men.

He endured seven shot injuries, which were exacted by projectiles originating from a .45-gun, Ga said.

The casualty was the spouse of Barangay Saray director boss Mayla Fuentes, Ga included.

Asked what the conceivable rationale could be for the executing of Fuentes, Ga said the police were all the while researching the homicide.

Fuentes, he said, additionally apparently worked video karera machines.

Ga said Fuentes' slaughtering conveyed to 30 the quantity of people executed here for still hazy reasons since July.

In Western Mindanao, no less than 49 suspected medication pushers had been slaughtered since July, as indicated by Chief Supt. Billy Beltran, the Zamboanga promontory police executive.

Beltran said of the figure, 28 were slaughtered in a shootout with law masters while 21 others were murdered by still unidentified culprits.

"In no time, these 21 passings are being examined," he said.

Senior Supt. Luisito Magnaye, the Zamboanga City police chief, said of the 49 drug-related passings, 12 were recorded in the city.

"These are from genuine operations, we don't have instances of rundown executions here in Zamboanga City. Those murdered brutally opposed," Magnaye said. (With a report from Julie Alipala, Inquirer Mindanao) SFM

source : inquirer