More vehicles stoned along Ilocos highways
>> Tuesday, July 4, 2017
By
Mar T. Supnad
CAMP QUIRNO, Ilocos
Sur -- The stoning of vehicles along highways has become more rampant in this
province despite police efforts to thwart the practice.
Four more
passenger buses were stoned recently even as police patrols were increased
along national roads.
Senior
Supt. Jovencio Badua, Ilocos Sur police director, said he has directed all
police chiefs in the province “to enhance police presence particularly at night
time and conduct patrols along the national highways.”
Badua also
directed his men to check beer joints and bars where suspected throwers
converge before they go on a stoning spree.
“We had
already identified two suspects in Sta. Maria town and filed cases against
them,” he said.
He also
instructed the police chiefs to utilize barangay police action teams to
meet bar owners to help stop the
stonings.
“We have
already provided leaflets to bus operators and drivers containing hot line
numbers to enable them to get police assistance in case of emergency,” he said.
Four more
Partas buses were stoned, damaging their windshields and injuring passengers.
In Narvacan
town alone, police noted three stoning incidents in just one day, and one
in Barangay Napo, Magsingal.
In Santiago
town, an Isuzu GIGA Wing Van truck was also stoned by two unidentified men at
Barangay Caburao, near the Banayoyo junction.
The truck’s
windshield was cracked.
The two
unidentified suspects fled south direction after the incident.
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