TRECE MARTIRES CITY, Philippines—A woman whom residents claimed was a suspected drug pusher was found dead, her body stuffed inside a rice sack, in Damariñas City in Cavite province on Wednesday, a police official said on Thursday.
Supt. Rodolfo Hernandez, Dasmariñas City police chief, said residents of Barangay Paliparan 3 found the body of Evangeline Tan along a road at 5 a.m. Wednesday.
Hernandez said Tan’s body had stab wounds while her hands were tied with an electric cord. A sheet of paper, with the words, “Wag tularan, tulak ako (Do not imitate, I’m a drug pusher),” was placed inside the sack.
Tan was not on the police’s watch list of illegal drug suspects. However, Hernandez said residents knew she was involved in the illicit trade.
“Whoever did it, we think it was meant to silence her,” Hernandez said.
A man was also killed in Dasmariñas in a shootout with policemen at 2:15 a.m. Thursday in Barangay Sampaloc 2.
Hernandez said policemen patrolling the area saw two men at a vacant lot but when they approached them, one of them started shooting at the lawmen.
He said one of them died when policemen retaliated, while the other escaped.
Police recovered two sachets of alleged shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) from the slain suspect, who had yet to be identified on Thursday morning.
In Rizal province, two suspected drug traders were killed in shootout following a buy-bust operation in Antipolo City at 9 p.m. Wednesday.
A report from the Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) regional police office identified them only by their aliases “Dennis Palaka” and “Bong Muslim.”
The two reportedly tried to resist arrest and fired at policemen. Police recovered two .38 cal. guns from the suspects and nine sachets of alleged shabu, the report said. RAM/rga
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