Two security guards were found dead, both with gunshot wounds, on Tuesday morning, November 4, inside the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) office in Ipil, the capital town of Zamboanga Sibugay province.
Local executives and officials of the Zamboanga Sibugay Provincial Police Office told reporters on Thursday, November 5, that the fatalities – Arcadz Dawila Muharal, 41, and Dante Miro Jamie, 52 – were on duty when armed men barged into the BIR office in the town proper of Ipil before dawn Tuesday, shot them with pistols, and fled.
Investigators from the Ipil Municipal Police Station said the suspects also took the storage disk of the office’s security camera system as they escaped. Municipal officials are assisting in the investigation.
Brig. Gen. Eleazar Matta, director of the Police Regional Office 9, said on Wednesday that the Ipil police and barangay leaders are cooperating to identify and prosecute the killers of the two security guards.