5 men from Bukidnon found dead in Rio Grande de Mindanao
• 20:50 PM Mon Jan 4, 2016
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By:
Edwin O. Fernandez
COTABATO CITY – The remains of five men found dead floating along Rio Grande de Mindanao
before New Year have been retrieved by their relatives over the weekend, police
here said.
The five men,
believed to be victims of summary execution, were fished out of the river one
at a time on December 31 with gunshot wounds in various parts of the body. They
were believed to have been killed in the upstream town of Kabuntalan in
Maguindanao.
They were executed
somewhere in Maguindanao and were fished out in the Cotabato City side of the
river,” Senior Supt. Raul Supeter, city police director, told DXMS-AM Radyo Bida.Police believed the
five men from Bukidnon were killed by still unidentified men due to illegal
drug deal that went wrong.
Supeter identified
the victims through their relatives as Raul Cervantes, 40, Noel Soriano Rolos,
32, both farmers from Dangcagan, Bukidnon Nolan Clark Chan Tero, 30, driver
from Barangay Poblacion, Damulog, Bukidnon and Adonis Robles, 40, an ex-soldier
from Don Carlos, Bukidnon.
The fifth victim
remained unidentified.
Since the remains
were in decomposing stage, police and the local government buried them at a
public cemetery here.
On Sunday, the
remains were exhumed and brought to Bukidnon by relatives.
Relatives told police the five men were on board a vehicle and went
somewhere in Maguindanao on December 26 for still unknown purpose.