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| Southeast Asia |
| Basilan cop killed |
| 2006-04-03 |
| Motorcycle gunmen shot dead a policeman and wounded his son in an attack on Sunday in the town of Lamitan, Basilan. Officials said Senior Police Officer 2 Salvador Castro II was driving his motorcycle with his son, Salvador, and a nephew when the assailants armed with automatic pistols drove near them. The assassins opened fire at the victims near the village of Semut about 8:30 a.m. The policeman died. His son was injured. The third passenger was unscathed. "Castro was shot in the head. He was killed on the spot," Inspector Elmer Acuna, the townÂ’s deputy chief of police, said. Police appealed to those who witnessed the attack to help in the investigation. No group or individual claimed responsibility for the killing, but the island is a known lair of the Abu Sayyaf bandits blamed for the series of killing in the South. The island is also notorious for vendetta killings. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 Lamitan is where the ASG raided the hospital during the Burnham hostage ordeal and where the ASG continually run ops. I thing Hamsaraji Sali was killed there, by the military, as well. |
| Posted by: 49 pan 2006-04-03 21:43 |