LAMITAN CITY, Basilan—A septuagenarian woman and her two granddaughters were pummeled to death with a piece of wood last Tuesday dawn at barangay Limook, this city, by a man who also raped the two teenage girls, police said.
A police report received by Lamitan City chief of police Senior Inspector Gean Gallardo said Nelita Barbosa, 72, was first fatally clubbed before her two granddaughters were attacked by the suspect.
Gallardo said a Police Scene of the Crime Operatives showed the assailant also sexually abused the two girls after killing Barbosa.
The police chief claimed the suspect, Ronald Pahunao, 32, a visiting farmer and native of Titay, Zamboanga Sibugay. He was later arrested and detained at the city jail.
Witnesses said Pahunao was earlier seen a night before the incident drinking with friends at a sari-sari store near the victims’ residence.
Gallardo said the suspect’s flashlight was later recovered beside the body of one of the slain teenagers, adding that police were still tracing the whereabouts of Pahunao’s companions who reportedly left the store ahead of the suspect.