CABANATUAN CITY – A man included in the local police drug watchlist was killed in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Dicarma here at around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, police said.
Col. Ponciano Zafra, city police chief, identified the fatality as Patricio Azurin, resident of the said place.
Zafra said the buy-bust operation was conducted, in coordination with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) upon confirmation of the suspect’s illicit activities.
The suspect, however, drew a .9mm pistol and fired at the undercover policeman, forcing operatives to fire back, he said. Azurin died instantly.
Investigators reportedly recovered from the suspect the gun, 12 sachets of shabu, the P500 marked bill and other drug paraphernalia.
