TUGUEGARAO
CITY -- — Six members of a family including three minors were hacked dead by an
unidentified suspect in Gonzaga, Cagayan Tuesday.
Chief Insp. Elpidio
Zingapan, town police chief, identified the fatalities as Dizon Oandasan, 42;
his wife Sany, 47; their children Wilson, 13; Karen, 12, and Dizon Jr., 5, and
relative Juanito Soliva, 55.
The youngest member of
the family, three-year-old Denison, was rushed to the Cagayan Valley Medical
Center in this town for treatment of hack wounds.
The
minor was in critical condition, police said.
The crime occurred at
the house of the Oandasans in a remote area of Sitio San Francisco, Barangay
Ipil.
He said the killer,
believed armed with a bladed weapon, could have barged into the house of the
victims at dawn.
The traces of blood
found at the crime scene were still fresh when responding police officers
arrived at around 7 a.m., Zingapan said.
Police are verifying
reports that the killer could have suffered injuries during a scuffle with the
victims.
This was after
investigators received information that a wounded man sought treatment at a
local hospital at around the same time the crime was discovered.
Probers
are eyeing a land dispute as the motive for the killing.
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