DUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines — Police are calling on the public to be vigilant against suspicious persons and to coordinate with authorities to prevent any more killings in Negros
Police Brigadier General Debold Sinas made this call at the sidelines of the command conference of police chiefs of Negros Oriental province on Sunday, July 28, in Dumaguete City, where he assured that the police in the province were in control of the peace and order situation there.
Sinas, however, made the call for the public to be vigilant after another man was killed in a market in Barangay Panubigan, Canlaon City in Negros Oriental at past 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 28. The victim, Anaciancino Rosalita, a tanod of Barangay Bucalan, was the 17th victim killed in the province since July 23. According to police reports, Rosalita was shot dead by unidentified assailants at 3:05 p.m. at the Oval Market of Barangay Panubigan.
Despite the killings, Sinas again assured that police in the province were still in control of the situation. He said police had continued to implement a heightened alert status and continued to investigate the killings to arrest the culprits.He said they already know that three of the killings in the province in the past week were allegedly done by the New People’s Army .
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