(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is set to visit the wake of the nine sugarcane farmers killed by unidentified men in a plantation in Sagay city, Negros Occidental last Saturday night.
This was announced by Former Special Assistant to the President Christopher “Bong” Go on Monday, October 22.
“Inaayos pa nila pero I’m sure bibisita sa wake,” Go said to the reporters.
Go said the President wanted to know what really happened to the nine farmers who were shot dead by armed men.
Authorities have identified the victims as Eglicerio Cambannga Villegas, 36; Angeliffa Dumaguit Arsenal, 47; Paterno Baroy, 48; Rene Laurencio Sr.; Morena Mendoza, 48; Marcelina Dumaguit; Rommel Bantigue, 41; Jomarie Oghayon, 16; and Marchtel Sumicad, 17, who were all members of the Negros Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW).
But before this, Go said the President will first visit the three police who were killed in an ambush in Camarines Sur and the three others who were hurt in the incident.
