Boat with cadaver of skipper found in Moro Gulf
BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES • 21:45 PM Wed May 29, 2019
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By:
John M. Unson
The wayward fishing boat is now in the custody of the Maguindanao Maritime Police.
MAGUINDANAO --- The police salvaged a fishing boat adrift at the Moro Gulf carrying its dead skipper Tuesday, hours after his killer was arrested swimming away near the west coast of this province.
The suspect, Bonifacio Segudan Rabe, 43, has confessed having killed with a knife his companion, the 31-year-old Joerey Pagnete, amid a heated altercation over sailing procedures.
Pagnete was first rescued by combined personnel of the Datu Blah municipal police office and the Philippine Coast Guard swimming towards the seaside town.
He eventually admitted killing Pagnete while being interrogated by probers.
Members of the Maguindanao Maritime police and the Parang municipal police office later found the boat carrying the cadaver of Pagnete near Bonggo Island about three kilometers from the spot where Rabe was found swimming helplessly wearing a life vest.
Staff Sergeant Faidzal Sendad, investigator of the Maguindanao Maritime police, is now trying to contact the relatives of Rabe and Pagnete and the owner of the fishing boat now in their custody for proper coordination.
Probers are now validating assertions by Rabe, now detained, that he and Pagnete, both from Zamboanga del Sur province, were bound for Pagadian City to fetch companions there when their boat engine malfunctioned, causing its drift to the Moro Gulf.