Gunmen shot dead North Cotabato teacher, pupils hurt
Local News • 00:23 AM Thu Jan 15, 2015
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By:
Edwin Fernandez
KIDAPAWAN CITY
– Unidentified gunmen shot dead a public school teacher while he was
having session with his pupils in a public school President Roxas, North
Cotabato Tuesday.
Police Senior
Inspector Romy Castanares, President Roxas police chief, identified the slain as
Marato Dilangalen Ampatuan, 49, teacher of Datu Sundungan Elementary School in
President Roxas town and resident of Barangay Bulit, Kabacan, North Cotabato.
Castanares
said a 10-year-old girl and Grade 5 pupil he only identified as ‘Josie” was
wounded in the incident.
Castanares,
quoting witnesses, said four men arrived inside the school campus at 2 p.m. on
board two motorbikes and went straight to Ampatuan’s Grade 5 classroom.
Without provocation,
one of the suspects shot the teacher in front of his horrified student.
Ampatuan was
hit in the head and fell on one of his pupils.
But the gunman fired more shots on Ampatuan that also wounded the pupil.
The suspects
then fled while other teachers rushed him and the pupil to the hospital where
he was declared dead on arrival. The
girl remain in the hospital.
Police recovered
nine empty shells for cal. 45 pistol at the crime scene.
Castanares said
investigation was still going on to determine it was work related or family feud,
locally known as ‘rido.”