Task Force Sibayan has been formed by the Police Provincial Office after the slaying of a councilor by still unidentified assailants in barangay Alac in this town at 9:00 p.m. last Tuesday.

Councilor Albert Hidalgo Sibayan, 40, was talking to someone in front of a barangay Day Care Center when he was gunned down by two persons riding tandem on a motorcycle.

The victim sustained 13 gunshot wounds in different parts of his body and was rushed to a local clinic where he was pronounced dead on arrival by an attending physician.

 The gunmen used a cal. 45 handgun as evidenced by 10 empty shells and two slugs found at the crime scene.

P/Sr. Supt. Isagani Nerez formed the task force, composed of investigators from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, Provincial Intelligence and Investigation Division of the Pangasinan Provincial Office and the San Quintin Police.

P/Sr. Insp. Abubakar Mangelen, chief of police of San Quintin, said no suspects have been identified and believes the killing of the town councilor could be due to an old grudge or involving a personal problem.

Several angles are being looked into among them a still unverified report that Sibayan was involved with a group engaged in illegal drugs.

A report also noted that Sibayan had just secured an annulment of his marriage with his estranged wife and is now living with another woman.

Meanwhile, several more killings were reported in Basista and Urdaneta last week on the heels of another killing in San Carlos City.

In Bayambang, a suspected cattle rustler was gunned down by unidentified armed men while he and his wife were about to board a bus bound for Metro Manila.

But the victim survived the incident and is now recuperating at an undisclosed hospital in Dagupan City.—LM

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