Ex-barangay Captain was shot to death and 3 others wounded by the gunmen in Sirawai

by: Becky D. de Asis

Zamboanga City, Philippines - The late Ex-barangay Captain Bobong Manangca was in front of his house together with the three victims who was his tenants and about to take their lunch when suddenly the suspects arrived armed with Cal .45 pistol, hand grenade, M14 and homemade shotgun and without any provocation, the suspects open fired to the victims.

And relative to said incident certain Teresa Ginja, 37 year old, wife of Andy Ginja also sustained gunshot wounds on her back. That at about 9:00 o’clock in the morning of November 13, 2016 the late victim Ex-barangay Captain Bobong Lumigis Manangca was buried at Barangay Balubuan, Sirawai, Zamboanga Del Norte by his immediate family.

The three (3) other wounded were still at Zamboanga Medical Center and now in a stable medical condition. at about 5:00 o’clock in the afternoon of November 13, 2016, the wife of the late Bobong Lumigis Manangca identified as Tatah Conding Mangca, 37 year old, and elder sister of the victim identified as  Julaiha Lukman Anwari, 45 year old, separated appeared to Sirawai MPS and executed their Judicial Affidavit as complainant and witness to said incident and positively identify all the suspects of ex-Barangay Captain Bobong Lumigis Manangca as: Bating Lumigis, Haron Muntong, Basser Sabbudin, Alih Lumigis, Mahaimin Lumigis, Ibrahim Sabuddin, and Ato Lumigis.

The motive of the incident is still to be determined. However, based on the collective information gathered by Sirawai Municipal Police Station , the victim was being suspected as one of the informers of Sirawai Police, wherein the police served a Search Warrant at the resident of Erwin Dacula that then resulted to the death of Mohammad Sabuddin (relative of the suspects) after the shootout.n (with report by PRO9/posted by Becky D. de Asis- The Redline News Philippines)