BY AARON RECUENCO
Police commandos killed a wanted man and his companion in a gunbattle in Tungawan town of Zamboanga Sibugay on Saturday.
Brig. Gen. Bernabe Balba, director of the Special Action Force (SAF), said suspect Jomar Aukasa was connected to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) as he served as the facilitator of kidnapping of victims in Zamboanga Peninsula that would be later transported to either Basilan or Sulu.
Aukasa, who was facing four counts of murder and a case of robbery, was killed along with a certain Butchoy during a raid in his lair in Barangay Sisay in Tungawan town.
“The neutralization of Aukasa culminated eight months of extensive manhunt operation that began on March 17 this year under Case Operational Plan ‘Assassin’”.
SAF commandos recovered a rifle and handgun from the slain suspects.
The recovered handgun, according to Balba, was the service firearm of a policeman in Tungawan town, which he took away when he escaped in 2018.
The same gun was used in the shooting of a policeman several months ago.
The cop survived the attack. (Aaron Recuenco)
