SULTAN KUDARAT, Philippines — Policemen in Isulan shot dead past dawn on Thursday the stepfather suspected of kidnapping and killing a 16-year-old girl. The body of the high school student Notre Dame of Banga was found near an irrigation dike in Barangay Punong Grande in Banga town in South Cotabato on Wednesday. Officials of the South Cotabato provincial police said the girl's friends and relatives reported that Gumilid was a live-in partner of her mother. Witnesses have confirmed to the Banga municipal police having seen Gumilid and three others abduct the victim near the school campus early on. A team of investigators from the provincial police offices in Sultan Kudarat and South Cotabato provinces are still looking into the motive for the abduction and murder,Police are still trying to locate Gumilid's three accomplices, according to the Police Regional Office-12.

Source: Philippine Star December 05, 2019 05:26 UTC