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MANILA, Philippines – A suspect in the murder of the former Jolo police chief was a relative of one of the Army intelligence agents who were shot and killed in the capital of Sulu in 2020 allegedly by nine Jolo police officers, according to the chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Gen. Debold Sinas on Monday (February 1).
“That is most likely one of the angles where they took revenge,” Sinas told reporters on the sidelines of the PNP anniversary at Camp Crame. He did not say which of the suspects was related to one of the murdered army officers.
Sinas said the PNP had already filed complaints against seven suspects in the murder of Lt. Col. Walter Annayo, a former Jolo police chief, in Maguindanao in 2020.
Annayo was dismissed as Jolo police chief following the murder of army intelligence officers allegedly at the hands of nine policemen in the city, who had ultimately been dismissed but released.
Sinas said the search continued for the fired police officers who are charged with murder for the murder of Army intelligence agents.
Army officers, who were on the trail of suspected terrorists, were shot and killed by police officers at a checkpoint in Jolo in June 2020 in what the police initially described as a “wrong encounter” but that the military said that it was murder.
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