A CHINESE national and three other people were found dead in two separate areas in Pampanga on Monday morning, a police report said Tuesday.
The report said the Chinese national was Jia Cheng Chen alias Michael Chen. He was found dead inside a gray Ford Explorer without license plates around 9 a.m. along MacArthur Highway in San Fernando City. His feet had been tied with packaging tape.
In Bacolor, three unidentified people”•two male and one female aged between 25 and 35″•were found dead inside a sugarcane plantation in Maliwalo village around 7:15 a.m. also on Monday.
Meanwhile, a defeated mayoralty bet was killed and the son of a deputy police chief was arrested during an anti-drug operation in Pikit, North Cotabato, on Tuesday, according to a report reaching Camp Aguinaldo.
The report identified the slain man as former town councilor Dindo Piang, 45, and the arrested man as Nasser Karim, son of deputy police chief Sindatu Karim. It said Nasser was arrested after a machine gun owned by one of the 44 slain Special Action Force members in 2015 was found on him.
Police said Piang fired his gun on the policemen and soldiers of the 7th Infantry Battalion who were serving a search warrant at his home at 4 a.m.
The younger Karim and six other people were arrested, but the elder Karim reportedly refused to issue any statement.
In Lanao del Norte, high-powered firearms and drugs were recovered from a suspect during an operation conducted on Tuesday by the military and agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.