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Date: 16 June 2010
Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/network/3-killed-cebu-ambush

CEBU CITY – Less than an hour after walking out of a police detention cell, a man died in an ambush in Barangay Poblacion, Lapu-Lapu City Wednesday night.

Four men on two motorcycles fired at Sigfredo Abas, who died on the spot. Doctors pronounced his companion Diosdado Ardiente Sr. dead on arrival, while Rey Niño Donaire died around 11 p.m. in the hospital.

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The ambush injured a fourth companion, Alejandro Lobordina, while Abas’s driver, identified only as Rene remained missing Wednesday night. Investigators did not know if he was injured or not.

Abas and Donaire were arrested last Tuesday afternoon in Sitio Tugas, Gun-ob for alleged possession of illegal drugs. They each raised P200,000 for bail.

A police logbook showed the men were released at 8:05 Wednesday night and picked up by Rene, a radio DyAB report said. In his haste to leave the detention cell, Abas left behind the release order issued Judge Victor Teves of the Lapu-Lapu City Regional Trial Court.

Minutes after they left in a light green Chery, four men on two motorcycles tailed them, and the passengers of both bikes fired as the car reached Mantawi St.

Homicide investigator Senior Police Officer 1 Frederick Eslit said the police found 20 shells fired from a .45 at the crime scene, near a row of convenience stores and repair shops.

Eslit said the ambush occurred around 8:30 p.m.

He said Abas’s wife, Arnela, told the police her husband briefly dropped by their house, but left again for Lapu-Lapu City because he meant to light a candle at the parish named after the Virgin of the Rule.

The investigator told Sun.Star Cebu the area usually suffers from traffic, so it’s probable the victims’ car was moving slowly at the time the attackers struck.

Both motorcycle divers wore helmets, but their passengers, the gunmen, wore neither marks nor caps, Eslit said, quoting witnesses.

He said he could not recall similar incidents in the city, when newly freed suspects were gunned down shortly after their release. (JTG of Sun.Star Cebu)