Tacloban City—Police Chief Supt. Elmer Beltejar, acting Eastern Visayas regional director, condemned the killing in Calbayog of barangay chairman Francisco Cano, 58, and Chito Rabe, 34, single, of Barangay East Awang.
Cano was allegedly one of the drug personalities who voluntarily surrendered to the Calbayog City Police Station of the Samar Provincial Police Office.
The shooting incident that transpired at about 10:50 a.m. Sunday at P-5 Barangay Nijaga was perpetrated by two unidentified suspects, who also wounded Ramil Macarato, 32, jobless and a resident of Barangay Guin-on.
The victims were on their way home to Barangay Guin-on on a motorcycle when the suspects on another motorcycle (marked Honda XRM with no plate number) shot the victims in different parts of their bodies and fled.
Cano and Rabe were immediately brought to Our Lady of Porciuncula Hospital but were pronounced dead on arrival, while Macarato was brought to EVRMC Tacloban City for medical treatment. Recovered from the crime scene were eight pieces of fired cartridge of cal .45 and three slugs.
The cadavers of the victims were taken to St. Jude Funeral Homes, Barangay Capoocan, Calbayog City. The police are conducting follow-up investigation relative to the incident.