INTENSIFIED CHECKPOINT. Members of North Cotabato 4th Maneuver Platoon of 2nd Police Provincial Mobile Force Company at a checkpoint in Barangay Ladtingan, Pikit, North Cotabato, following an ambush that killed two junior high students. Pikit is among the towns closely watched by the police ahead of the Barangay elections due to previous election-related violence. (Photo courtesy of Pikit MPS)
PIKIT, North Cotabato – Two junior high school students were killed in an ambush Sunday night in a remote village here, police said.
In a report on Monday, Maj. John Arvin Cambang, town police station chief, said Jamer Ebrahim, 21; and Muhaliden Amer, 20, both of Barangay Poblacion, died on the spot.
Investigation showed that victims were riding on a motorbike heading for home when they were ambushed on the border of Ladtingan and Kalawag villages.
The victims bore multiple gunshot wounds.
Responding police found empty shells for caliber .45 pistol at the scene.
The ambush came amid the strict election gun ban here. (PNA)
