CABANATUAN CITY – Some 80 families of suspected drug personalities killed in police operations from 23 villages here were treated to a lunch and bags of groceries in an outreach program by the St. Nicholas Parish here Saturday.
Fr. Joel Cariaso, parish priest, asked the families during the Mass that preceded the program to pray for the souls of their relatives and avoid anger.
“Alam natin na ang Diyos ay Diyos ng katarungan. Hindi po diyan natatapos ‘yan,” Cariaso said in his homily. “Sana po ang manatili sa inyong puso ay hindi yung galit, hindi yung bitterness kundi ito ay ipaubaya sa Panginoon.”
Dubbed “Father to the Fatherless,” the activity aims to make the orphans know that the Church grieves with them, he said.
Romana (not her real name), 66, believes her 40-year-old son from Imelda District here was unjustly named by a neighbor to be a pusher of shabu. Her son was killed in an anti-drug operation last April.
“Yung itaas ang kakampi namin. May araw na makakamit din niya ang hustisya,” she said.
2 killed in drug sting
Meanwhile in Bongabon, Nueva Ecija, two alleged drug pushers in the police watchlist were killed in an anti-drug operation in Barangay Cruz here Friday.
Police identified the suspects as Ruel Magisa and William Chioco, both residents of Barangay La Torre, Talavera town.
Police said both suspects fired .38 revolvers at the undercover operative but missed in the middle of the transaction at around 2:45 a.m.
Investigators recovered from.the suspects thevtwo guns, eleven sachets of suspected shabu and the dusted P500 bill, police reported.
