By Estanislao Albano, Jr.
TABUK CITY, Kalinga – The current clan war or binoburoy within the Lubo tribe of Tanudan is feared to further escalate after two members of one of the clans were murdered this week.
At 5:30 PM of March 21, Roger Cullapoy, 35, a resident of Bulanao, this city, was shot to death by two men riding in tandem on a motorcycle while he was driving his tricycle in Bulanao.
Three days later in Upper Lubo, Tanudan, Sallaya Condaya, 49, was gunned down inside his house.
Apparently, the gunmen took advantage of the fact that other men relatives of Condaya had left for Bulanao to attend the wake of Cullapoy.
It is widely believed here that the shooting to death of the two victims are connected with the existing clan war between the Wacnang and Angnganay families of the Lubo tribe as they both belong to the latter clan.
The clan war was triggered by the shooting to death of Gilbert Angnganay, 52, a former vice mayor of Tanudan, a resident of Bulanao, allegedly by Santos Wacnang, 52, a resident of Purok 4, Bulanao, in the Bulanao public market on July 20,2010.
The Angnganay clan allegedly retaliated by killing a relative of Wacnang in Lubo, Tanudan sometime later.
Meanwhile on March 21, the body of a fourth year high school student of Pasil National High School in Batongbuhay, Pasil, who has been missing for two days, was found buried in a shallow grave near the house of Leslie Alicog at sitio Biyog, Batongbuhay.
According to sources, the body of Kenneth Lunes, 17, a resident of Batongbuhay, bore signs of torture.
The police are preparing charges of murder against Alicog who was positively identified by witnesses as the assailant. Alicog is at large.
