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PH National Police and PH Drug Enforcement Agency's chiefs answer gunfight questions

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Gen. Debold Sinas, Philippine National Police chief (right), and Wilkins Villanueva, director-general of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), greet each other with a fist bump after holding a press conference on Thursday at Camp Crame. (Photo from Lyn Rillon/ABS-CBN Screengrab/NCRPO-PIO)

[Asia News Communication = Reporter Reakkana] Philippine National Police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)’ chiefs couldn’t explain the gun battle between their operatives that killed four people dead a day earlier, but they promised that those responsible would face prosecution, PH Inquirer said.

A joint investigation by a board of inquiry with representatives from both the PNP and PDEA is ongoing to find out why police officers and PDEA agents engaged each other in a firefight close to a mall on Wednesday night. Gunfire triggered panic among motorists and pedestrians and customers at a McDonald’s restaurant near Ever Gotesco Mall during the early evening rush hour on busy Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City. Two police officers, a PDEA agent, and a PDEA informer were killed. An officer and three PDEA agents were wounded.

Speaking at a press conference in Camp Crame alongside PNP chief Gen. Debold Sinas, PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva described the deadly clash as “the saddest day in the history of drug law enforcement.” “It’s Murphy’s Law. If it will go bad, it will happen,” Villanueva said. “I don’t know what to call it but it’s an unfortunate incident. He appealed to the public to give the inquiry board at least two weeks to complete its investigation, which he said they owed to those who died in the gunfight.



 

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