Solon’s aide hacked dead in Tabuk market

TABUK CITY, Kalinga — An aide of incumbent Rep. Manuel S. Agyao who heads an anti-robbery task force at an agricultural market, here, was killed when two men ganged up on him – one of them hacking him in the head with a bolo.

Senior Supt. Virgilio Laya, Kalinga police chief, said the attack on Luis A. Siyao, 57, of Barangay Nambaran, here, happened earlier this week at a carabao market near his residence.

Laya said Siyao was engaged in a fight with an unidentified man who tried to wrest control of his gun when a second man came from behind him and hacked him in the head with a bolo.

During the scuffle, Siyao’s firearm fired twice hitting a certain Ophelia Emang, 18, in the thigh.

Witnesses told probers the man who hacked Siyao alighted from a motorcycle parked nearby and after the attack, both assailants made their getaway on board the same motorcycle.
Local residents said Siyao caught the ire of some shady characters in Nambaran because of his leading a task force against cattle-rustlers and robberies at the market.

Laya said manhunt operations are now under way after police got the description of the suspects.