2 military personnel, 2 others slain in shooting incidents in Negros Oriental

DUMAGUETE CITY –– Four men, including two military personnel, were killed in separate shooting incidents in Negros Oriental on Sunday and Monday.

In northern Guihulngan City, suspected rebels of the New People’s Army (NPA) ambushed and killed Reymond Fat, a member of the Civilian Active Auxiliary stationed in the village Hinakpan, last Sunday afternoon.

A report from the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office said Fat was on his way home when waylaid and shot multiple times by four suspected members of the NPA’s Special Partisan Unit.

Recovered from the crime scene were 14 bullets from a .45 caliber pistol.

The next day, motorcycle-riding assassins shot and killed Philippine Navy reservist Roger Alibiado, 40, at Datag village of southern Siaton town.

Initial police investigation showed that Alibiado was on his way home with his live-in partner Monday afternoon when four motorcycle-riding gunmen ambushed them.

The perpetrators shot Alibiado in the head.

Alibiado was rushed to a hospital but attending physicians declared them dead on arrival.

Two more murders were reported over the past two days in Negros Oriental involving “habal-habal” driver Samson Doong, 61, in Siaton town; and Anthony Elnar, 33, at the village of Maninihon in Bayawan City.

Doong suffered a gunshot wound in the head, reports from the Negros Oriental Police showed.

Authorities have yet to disclose further details about the four shooting incidents as they were still conducting deeper investigations as of this posting.

Suspected NPA rebels also attacked a base of the Philippine National Police’s Regional Mobile Force Battalion-7 in Barangay Hinakpan, Guihulngan City Monday evening.

The attack lasted less than a minute. No one was killed or injured in the incident.