TWO brothers are now fighting for their lives at the Region I Medical Center after they were brutally attacked by still unidentified persons in their home in barangay La Consolacion in Urdaneta City on January 15.

The victims Rogelio Fonacier, 15, sustained seven stab wounds, and his one-year old brother, Christopher, suffered 17 stab wounds.

They were left for dead by the suspects without their neighbors hearing their cries for help.

Ronnie Fonacier, 47, a farmer and a native of barangay Guiling, Rosales, said he found his two sons bathing in the pool of their own blood when he and wife Alicia, 46, arrived at past 5:00 p.m. from work in the farm.

The suspects, possibly numbering more than two, used the family’s bolo and kitchen knife in stabbing the two boys as evidenced by bloodstains found in them.

The police arrested two persons whom they suspected to be involved in the attack of the two boys but were later released for insufficiency of evidence against them.

Superintendent Paquito Navarette, chief of police of Urdaneta City, hinted that based on the injuries suffered by the two Fonacier boys, it is possible that the suspects have a long unhealed grudge against the parents of the victim.

Ashuck Vasandani, an Indian philantropist, immediately called Police Regional Director Leopoldo Bataoil and Provincial Director Alan Purisma to ask for a full-dressed investigation because the incident was believed to be the handiwork of criminals with beast-like instinct.

Vasandani was among the few concerned citizens who responded to the pitiful plight of the victims’ family.

Fonacier told newsmen that he and wife were newly-hired farm hands in the landholding of Gabriel Lagmay who just arrived in La Consolacion a month ago and were staying in the house owned by Danilo Limon, a fellow farm hand.

Superintendent Navarette vowed to get the perpetrators at all cost. — LM

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