One dead, 1 hurt in tribal war between Kalinga, Mt Province

By Aldwin Quitasol

BAGUIO CITY-- Hostilities again resumes between the tribes men of Bugnay, Tinglayan, Kalinga and Betwagan, Sadanga , Mountain Province resulting to the death of a farmer and the wounding of another one.
    The fatality was identified as Richard Bannoya Sagwil, 40, while wounded was Edward Chay-as Alunday, 47, both farmers and residents of Bugnay.
    According to reports from the Kalinga Provincial Police Office, the two were walking down the foot trail at Mt.Kumaykay,Bugnay, Tinglayan, Kalinga at around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
    They were delivering food to their fellow tribesmen at the rice fields in the mountain when suddenly armed men positioned around 500 meters away from the two shot them.
    The shooting lasted for almost an hour.
    The sudden burst of gunfire resulted to the immediate death of Sagwil who was hit on his left eye. Alunday was hit on his abdomen.
    Their fellow tribesmen who came to the rescue had to wait until past 5 p.m. that day to get the two victims.
    The tribesmen retrieved the body of Sagwil while some of them rushed Alunday to the Tinglayan Municipal Health Office.
    The perpetrators allegedly belonged to the Betwagan Tribe of Sadanga, Mountain Province.
    Betwagan tribe of Sadanga and Butbut tribe of Tinglayan have a decades-old boundary dispute.
    Countless efforts by government officials, police and other stakeholders to restore the peace between the two tribes went futile.