Police hunt down farmer for slay of soldier in Samar

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Police are going after a farmer who allegedly stabbed dead a soldier during a drinking spree in Calbayog City, Samar on Thursday night. | Joey Gabieta/PDI

TACLOBAN CITY — Police are going after a farmer who allegedly stabbed dead a soldier during a drinking spree in Calbayog City, Samar on Thursday night.The fatality was identified as Private First Class Mark Dian Fuentes, 32, and assigned to the 19th Infantry Battalion based in Matuguinao town, also in Samar.

Reports reaching the regional office of the Philippine National Police based in Palo, Leyte, said that the victim had a drinking spree with his elder brother, Jomar; an uncle; and the suspect, Michael Cardenas, 36, at past 9 p.m. at his house in Barangay Marcatingog, Tinambacan District in Tacloban.

 

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