CAMP HAMAC, Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte—A former municipal councilor and his pastor-son were killed while his wife and three other relatives were wounded in an ambush staged by unidentified gunmen Monday morning at Sitio Tiosan, Barangay Nasibac in Leon Postigo town, this province.
A belated police report received here identified the fatalities as ex-Sangguniang Bayan member Jose Ansong, 50, and his son Ramil, 29, a Seventh Day Adventist pastor in the same town. Wounded were Ansong’s wife Rosaria, 48, and relatives Florita Abitan, 28, and sister Mesalyn, 33, and cousin Martino Mocay, 36.
The report said the victims (all residents of Nasibac village), were on board an owner-type vehicle driven by Ansong with his son seated beside him. They were negotiating a rural road curve bound for the town proper when they were fired upon by the armed men who later escaped towards a nearby forested area.
Ansong and his son died on the spot.
Ansong’s wife and the other vehicle occupants suffered gunshot wounds and were taken to a hospital in this capital city where attending physicians later declared them out of danger.
Leon Postigo Municipal Police Station investigators appear to be facing a blank wall on the bloody incident, noting that the former municipal legislator had no known personal or political adversaries. Local policemen tried to run after the unknown perpetrators but failed to catch up with them.