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Suspect dead, 2 wounded in Laguna buy-bust 

By: - Reporter /
/ 08:27 AM March 24, 2019

SAN PEDRO CITY, Philippines – A suspected drug pusher was killed, while two others were wounded in a shootout in Biñan City in Laguna province on Sunday.

Slain in the police operation was Maburak Cabugatan said Laguna police chief Sr. Supt. Eleazar Matta.

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According to Matta, Cabugatan sold a sachet of alleged “shabu” to Police Officer 1 Alric Natividad in a buy bust operation past midnight in Barangay San Jose.

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He said the suspect must have realized it was an undercover operation as he ran inside his home and took a .38-caliber revolver.

The suspect shot Natividad in the stomach and hit another bystander, forcing other policemen to return fire and kill him.

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Matta said Cabugatan died while the wounded remained in the hospital.

Police recovered about 50 grams more of suspected shabu worth P340,000 from the suspect’s sling bag. /cbb

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