TUGUEGARAO
CITY , Cagayan – Police have filed murder charges before the Department of
Justice against two former Army soldiers for the July 3 killing of a village
councilman-brother of the vice mayor of Pamplona, Cagayan.
Senior Supt. Gregorio Lim, Cagayan police
director, withheld identities of the two suspects who allegedly gunned down
Barangay Cabaggan councilman Edmund Ifurung, younger brother of Vice Mayor
Edwin Ifurung.
According to police reports, the younger
Ifurung was resting in front of his gasoline station when two of three ski
mask-wearing men alighted from a motorcycle and fired at him several times with
.45-caliber pistols.
Ifurung died from 13 bullet wounds, and his
killers took his .45-caliber pistol before fleeing, police said.
Two helpers at the gasoline station
recognized the killers but refused to cooperate with investigators, as they
feared for their safety because the gunmen are believed to be “henchmen” of a
“big personality,” said Senior Insp. Mario Tuliao, Pamplona police chief.
Tuliao said Ifurung had been cleared of
alleged involvement in drug trafficking and gun-for-hire activities before
he was absorbed in the police and military intelligence communities.
Tuliao said they were looking into Ifurung’s
latest tussle with a Chinese black sand mining company from which he seized
supposedly hot timber being used to construct its office in his jurisdiction.
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