TACLOBAN
CITY, June 20 (PNA) -– The Philippine National Police (PNP) has launched a
manhunt operation against a group of private armies engaged in a fire fight on
Saturday with law enforcers that injured two police inspectors in Calbayog
City.
PNP Eastern
Visayas Regional Director Chief Supt. Jose Erwin Villacorte said that teams
have been deployed even to remote areas of Calbayog in Samar to hunt private
armies following an encounter with them in upland Tapae village.
On Saturday
morning, a tracker team led by Sr. Insp. Zalde Cagampang, encountered about 20
members of private armed groups believed to be the group of Jimmy Managaysay.
The police,
according to Villacorte, endured the heavy fire fight that lasted for more than
20 minutes, hurting Insp. Kim Oribillo and Insp. Alexander Alfonso.
The group of
Jimmy Managaysay managed to withdraw. The police believed that some private
armies were hurt since they saw bloodstains along the escape route towards the
mountainous part of Tapae village.
The police
recovered a semi automatic rifle at the scene.
Wounded cops
were brought to St. Camillus Hospital in Calbayog City.
According to
police records, Managaysay and his group was behind the brutal killings of
Sonny Regulacion, and his three young children in Victory village in Calbayog
last September 2015.
The
Managaysay group is one of those armed groups actively proliferating in Samar
based on police intelligence reports. Their leader is allegedly linked to
politicians in Samar.
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