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(Eagle News) — The chief of police of the Jolo municipal police has been relieved from his post. The relief of Lt. Col. Walter Annayo, the police have said, was to pave the way for an impartial probe into the killing of four soldiers in a misencounter with policemen on Monday, June 29. Annayo was replaced by Police Lt. Col. Filmore Calib. The Philippine Army has condemned the “fatal shooting,” calling for a “full-blown investigation” […]
(Eagle News)–The commanding general of the Philippine Army on Tuesday, June 30, said there was “no provocation” on the part of the soldiers who were killed in a “fatal shooting” by policemen in Jolo on Monday, as he called for a “full-blown investigation.” In a statement, Lt. General Gilbert Gapay said based on eyewitness accounts, no altercation transpired between the two parties either “to warrant such a carnage.” “Furthermore, no agents from the Philippine Drug […]
(Eagle News)–Interior Secretary Eduardo Año has ordered the policemen involved in the fatal “encounter” with four soldiers in a Jolo town disarmed. Año also ordered Philippine National Police Chief Archie Gamboa to restrict the policemen who, according to an initial report from the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao police, gunned down the soldiers in Barangay Walled on Monday, June 29. The report said the policemen were conducting patrol operations when they saw the four armed […]
