Cops tag NPAs for killing of village official

KIDAPAWAN CITY –Police here tagged the liquidation squad of the New Peoples’ Army (NPA) Front 53 as behind the killing this Sunday of a village official. City police director, Superintendent Leo Ajero, said that based on the SOCO reports, the gun used to execute barangay kagawad Albert Domingo of Barangay Marbel here, was the same pistol used in killing a certain ‘Bantito’, a businessman from Arakan, North Cotabato, two years ago. Both were assets of the military. Domingo was a former member of the Army’s 39th Infantry Battalion. Ajero said that of the three angles they have identified in Domingo’s killing, the NPA’s involvement is ‘closest to reality.’ Other motives include carnapping, as the suspects snatched the motorcycle being driven by the village official after the execution. Authorities also did not discount possibility that ‘love triangle’ was behind Domingo’s murder. (Malu Cadelina Manar)