CABANATUAN CITY – Two suspected drug pushers were killed in separate buy-bust operations in Nueva Ecija in a span of four hours, police reported.
Police identified the suspects who both died at the hands of “retaliating” policemen as Nelson Orosca, of Purok 5, Barangay Imelda, and Mario Sagnit, of Barangay ACCFA, both of this city.
Police Lt. Col. Ponciano Zafra, city police chief, said Orosca allegedly fired a .45 pistol against the operatives “but missed” during the buybust hatched at around 11:30 p.m. Sunday at Purok Amihan, Barangay Barrera here. Forensic investigators recovered from the suspect ten sachets of suspected shabu, the marked P500 bill and the pistol, Zafra said.
Sagnit, on the other hand, succumbed to bullet wounds in his chest after allegedly engaging anti-narcs policemen in a buy-bust in Barangay Nagmisahan, Cuyapo town, at around 3 a.m. Monday.
The suspect reportedly yielded a homemade .38 revolver, three plastic sachets of suspected shabu, and three P500 bills used as marked money.
