Ecija cop, 3 others killed in attack on police van
Published: 12:38 p.m., May 2, 2018 | Updated: 11:03 p.m., May 2, 2018
GUIMBA, Nueva Ecija — At least four men, one of them a police officer, were killed on Tuesday night when 10 armed men fired on a police vehicle here.
Two other police officers and two more civilians were hurt when the men fired on the van used to monitor the activities of a gang tied to cases of robbery and assassinations.
Protocol
The police were investigating if PO3 Christopher Delfin, PO2 Ruben Badongen and PO1 Mico Serrano violated protocols for allowing civilians in the surveillance van.
The vehicle, which did not carry a license plate, also contained game roosters.
The civilians were relatives of Delfin, a member of the Regional Mobile Force Battalion based in Camp Olivas, the Central Luzon police headquarters in Pampanga.
“They hitched a ride with Delfin’s group because their tricycle broke down somewhere in Cuyapo town,” said Chief Supt. Amador Corpus, Central Luzon police director.
The gunmen, who were on a motorcycle and two vehicles, attacked the van as it traveled on the highway in Barangay Tampac 1 in Guimba. The suspects fled toward Quezon town, also in Nueva Ecija.
Rolando Sambrano, Alfonso Sambrano and Erick Fardo were killed outright, while Badongen died in a hospital in Cabanatuan City.
Delfin and Serrano, as well as Raymundo Sambrano and Orlando Balmater, were wounded. /pdi
