‘ABRA TOWN ALL SAINTS DAY EVENING ASSASSINATION NOT POLL RELATED AT ALL’
BUCAY, Abra
An All Saints Day evening assassination in Bucay town in Abra was far from being poll-related, the Cordillera police said Thursday. Farmer Rolly Alcaide Lumaoig, 68, from sitio Dardaraoas, barangay Pagala, was found dead, half naked and in a prone position but still mounted on a Rusi Scooter motorcycle beside the road at around 10:20 Wednesday night. Cordillera police director
Brig. Gen. David K. Peredo Jr. bared the victim sustained a gunshot wound on the left side of his head.
Peredo though said the farmer “was killed because of a family dispute” and far from being linked to the intense political rivalries during the just concluded BSKE. Before the BSKE campaign period began, an alleged member of a private armed group was killed when he and 8 more armed men shot it out with patrolling policemen in Bucay.
Thus, prompting the deployment of more policemen and soldiers Bucay, the capital town of Bangued and elsewhere in the province after Abra provincial officials asked for immediate intervention into the heated political rivalries in the BSKE, some with reports of violence in relation including the forcible withdrawal of candidates. Some 250 bets in various positions withdrew in the province, though the Comelec insisted, the withdrawals were not necessarily forced but voluntary.
Artemio A. Dumlao/ABN
AMIANAN POLICE PATROL
November 4, 2023