Police neutralize 3 drug dealers in President Quirino

SULTAN KUDARAT --- Three uncooperative drug peddlers were killed in a gunfight Monday with a police team that tried to search for narcotics in their lair in President Quirino town.

Tato Dilangalen, Alano Sepi Usop and a relative named Big Boy Sepi Usop all died on the spot from multiple bullet wounds.

Personnel of the Sultan Kudarat provincial police dispatched to search their hideout peacefully in Barangay Sinakulay in President Quirino, Sultan Kudarat were forced to neutralize them when resisted.

The search operation that went haywire was premised on a warrant from the Regional Trial Court Branch 20 in nearby Tacurong City.

Investigators found a fragmentation grenade, a pistol and several sachets of shabu in the house where the three suspects were killed.

The suspects were long under surveillance for their distribution of shabu in President Quirino and in neighboring towns in Sultan Kudarat province.