ZAMBOANGA CITY, Zamboanga del Sur –– Police have launched a manhunt against a man who assaulted a quarantine front-line worker who refused to honor his old coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test result.
Captain Edwin Duco, spokesperson of the Zamboanga Peninsula police office, said Bobby Daniel, 30, of Tictapul village, was still at large and the subject of a manhunt after attacking Aldrin Arellano Suazon, 47, with a metal pipe last Feb. 14.
Daniel was with three other co-workers in a telecom project in Tungawan town in Zamboanga Sibugay, lining up to enter the city in a quarantine control checkpoint in Licomo village, some 83 kilometers from the city center.
Duco said Suazon denied Daniel entry because the result of his reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction test was already beyond the desired validity period. This irked Daniel, leading to the attack.
Suazon, who was supposedly off-duty that time, suffered multiple injuries and was rushed to the Zamboanga City Medical Center.
Grace Daniel, wife of the suspect, explained that her husband just defended himself because Suazon “was also armed with (a) bolo.”