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CITY OF CAGAYAN DE ORO – A police officer who served as a close bodyguard for the murdered mayor of the city of Misamis Occidental was killed in an ambush here on Saturday afternoon.
The incident occurred on the outskirts of Camp Alagar, the regional police headquarters located in the village of Lapasan.
Cagayan de Oro police spokesman, Major Evan Viñas, said Police Officer 1 Roy Aguas was heading home on his motorcycle when the suspects followed him down CM Recto Avenue at 4:30 a.m. late.
Viñas said the suspects opened fire on Aguas as soon as they approached him, killing the policeman instantly.
“The suspects also took the victim’s service firearm before they fled,” Viñas said.
Viñas said that Aguas, 40, was assigned to the Regional Headquarters Support Group.
He said investigators are investigating the possibility that the murder is linked to Aguas being the close bodyguard of the late Mayor David Navarro of Clarín, Misamis Occidental.
Navarro was killed in an ambush a few meters from the Provincial Capitol in the city of Cebu on October 25, 2019.
He was on the “narco-list” published by President Rodrigo Duterte in 2016.
Viñas said Aguas was fired as a police officer in 2018 for “serious administrative violations.”
He said Navarro allegedly interceded on behalf of Aguas, prompting him to return to police service in 2019.
Viñas said that the regional police office did not assign Aguas to the city of Clarín or Navarro, but rather put him in the Support Group of the Regional Headquarters.
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