By Edwin Fernandez – PNA News
COTABATO CITY – A fugitive from the North Cotabato District Jail (NCDJ) was gunned down in Pikit town Wednesday afternoon, police said.
Jail escapee Alimudin Abdullah alias Baser was killed on the spot while his companion, Antonio Silvano, 20, was critically injured. Both are residents of Barangay Dungguan, Pagalungan, Maguindanao.
Chief Inspector Teng Bacal, Pikit town police chief, said Abdullah and Silvano were on board a motorbike heading to Barangay Inug-ug when ambushed by unidentified gunmen at 1 p.m.
Responding village watchmen found at least 10 empty shells of .45-caliber pistol at the ambush site.
Bacal said Abdulla escaped from the North Cotabato District Jail after gunmen attacked the NCDJ prison facility to rescue detained companions in 2017.
At least 120 inmates fled but about 80 of them have either been recaptured or surrendered.
Bacal said police investigators eye personal grudge as the motive of the attack.
Police said Silvano figured in a shooting incident last week and was confined at the North Cotabato provincial hospital but escaped. Bacal said most of the shooting incidents in Pikit were triggered by personal grudges.
