Lanao town police chief, driver killed in ambush

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 08:12:00 +0000

THE bullet-riddled police patrol car of Binidayan Municipal Station after an ambush in Pagayawan, Lanao del Sur, past 6 p.m. Monday (Dec. 23). The town police chief, Executive Master Sgt. Amen Lucman Macalangan, and his driver, died on the spot. (Photo courtesy of Lanao del Sur Provincial Police Office)

ILIGAN CITY –A town police chief and his driver were shot dead by armed men while on board a patrol vehicle at Sitio Banisilan, Barangay Bandaraingud in Pagayawan town, Lanao del Sur, at around 7:20 p.m. Monday.

Police Colonel Madzgani Mukaram, Lanao del Sur police director, identified the victims as Executive Master Sgt. Amen Lucman Macalangan, officer-in-charge of Binidayan town police, and the latter’s driver identified as Ramel Pangcatan.

Murakam said the victims’ two companions on the vehicle — police non-uniform personnel Asliah Adiong and another police, Patrolman Nasser Arafat — were unhurt.

Mukaram said the victims were returning to Binidayan from a weekly oversight meeting at the provincial police headquarters in Marawi City when they were waylaid.

Report said that Macalangan was able to get off the vehicle and return fire before he was fatally hit. He died on the spot along with Pangcatan.

According to Lt. Col. Ian Noel Ignes, commander of the Army’s 55th Infantry Battalion, the ambush site is 400 to 500 meters from a Civilian
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