De Lima: NBI now knows where viral SAF shooting video was first uploaded

By: Tetch Torres-Tupas - 10 years ago

Screengrab from viral SAF shooting video

MANILA, Philippines–The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has already pinpointed the location where the video clip showing a wounded member of the Special Action Force (SAF) being shot at close range was first uploaded.

“The NBI is really working already on that video and they were able to trace kung saan ‘yun na-upload, what area na-upload,” Justice Secretary Leila De Lima said Friday.

The video showed a man in camouflage uniform sprawled on a cornfield who was later identified by relatives as PO1 Joseph Sagonoy, one of the 44 SAF men killed in Mamasapano, Maguindanao being shot twice at close range.

The SAF commandos were on a mission to capture Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir alias Marwan and Filipino bomb-maker Abdul Basit Usman.

The video also shows the group, most of whom were armed, taking magazines and other ammunition from several other fallen men, again, in camouflage uniform. Gunfire is repeatedly heard in the background while at least two of the perpetrators shouted, “Allahu akbar!”

“‘Yung mga faces unti-unti na nila naa-identify, ‘yung mga faces na nakita sa video (They are slowly identifying the faces shown on the video),” De Lima added.

“It is certainly part of the evidence already. It is just being evaluated at tumulong na rin Cybercrime Unit of the NBI (The Cybercrime Unit of the NBI has already helped),” she added.