3 killed, 2 hurt in South Cotabato ambush

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Three persons were killed and two others were wounded when suspected bandits attacked a convoy of five dump trucks owned by the town's mayor in a hinterland village of Tampakan, South Cotabato, the military said Saturday.

Lieutenant Colonel Joel Nacnac, commander of the Army’s 27th Infantry Battalion, told reporters that the ambush took place around 1:30 p.m. Friday in the hinterland village of Datal Biao.

Nacnac identified those killed as Ocias Panisana, a dump truck driver, and his two helpers - Rommel Vega and Nelson Parasan. (report from Aquiles Zonio, Philippine Daily Inquirer)