NIA worker slain in Carmen, North Cot.

By Taher G. Solaiman/MindaNews Contributor

CARMEN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/31 July) - At least two unidentified gunmen ambushed and killed a worker of the Malitubog-Maridagao Irrigation Project of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) at around 7 p. m. yesterday in Barangay (village) Ugalingan, Carmen, this province. Samson Mantawil, 44 years old and a resident of Barangay Ugalingan sustained gunshot wounds on his left breast, abdomen and the right side of his neck that caused his instant death.

Mantawil, who worked at the Water Resource Facilities Tender B, was on his way home aboard a green Kawasaki KE 100 motorcycle issued to him by the NIA when waylaid by his killers along the irrigation drainage canal about 200 meters east of the Sayre national highway in the said village.

Responding policemen recovered empty shells of M-1 Garand rifle on the scene of the crime as they claimed that there were at least two pertpetrators.

Taha Laguiab, Senior Water Resource Facilities Technician and a coworker of the victim, said Mantawil came from Cotabato City to follow up his loan with a government lending institution when he was killed.

Police authorities are still conducting investigations to determine the possible motives of the killing and to identify the perpetrators. (www.mindanews.com)