3 Maranaws dead, another hurt in Lanao del Sur ambush
BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES • 12:45 PM Mon Jan 15, 2024
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By:
John Felix Unson
COTABATO CITY - Three ethnic Maranaws riding a tricycle were killed while another was wounded in an ambush on Sunday afternoon in Barangay Masao in Pualas, Lanao del Sur.
In separate reports on Monday, local officials and the Pualas Municipal Police Station identified the fatalities as Pendaton Polayagan, 54, Tarapas Polayagan, 32, and the 26-year-old Mutilan Polayagan, who died on the spot from multiple bullet wounds.
The fourth tricycle passenger, Benjamin Polayagan, 25, was seriously wounded in the attack.
The Polayagan’s were on their way to somewhere when gunmen attacked them at a secluded stretch of a farm-to-market road in Barangay Masao.
Their attackers had scampered to different directions after they opened fire at the tricycle carrying the four victims.
Intelligence agents from the Lanao del Sur Provincial Police Office and personnel of the Pualas MPS are together trying to identify the perpetrators of the deadly ambush.
Barangay officials in Masao had told reporters they are helping the police locate the culprits.