5 suspects killed in gunfight
COTABATO CITY — Police killed five suspects who allegedly resisted arrest during an inspection for illegal drugs and firearms in Aleosan town, Cotabato in southern Philippines.
A member of the police’s elite Special Action Force also died from multiple bullet wounds during the gunfight, Brigadier General Percival Augustus P. Placer, director of the Police Regional Office-12, told reporters on Wednesday.
The suspects opened fire as policemen from the provincial and municipal governments approached the house they were in, sparking a gunfight.
The owner of the house and his cohorts were killed in the encounter. — John Felix M. Unson