[Inquirer] New People’s Army guerrillas shot and killed a policeman in a hinterland village in Davao City on Monday. The policeman died from multiple gunshot wounds after two men, who had hitched a ride on his motorcycle in in Tugbok district attacked him.Police spokeswoman Andrea dela Cerna, said the policeman was on his way to work after dropping off his wife, a school teacher, when he was shot by his two passengers. The attackers then fled with the victim’s firearm and motorcycle.
Southern Mindanao police commander Manuel Gaerlan condemned the vicious murder, calling it “a senseless and cowardly act against a good public servant, police officer and loving husband.”
“This act is a manifestation that the NPA and other communist front organizations have no regard for human rights and international humanitarian laws,” Gaerlan said in a statement.