Datu Unsay mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr.: Made sure victims were dead

Datu Unsay mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr., made sure victims were dead. In Manila, Philippines last Nov. 23 were indeed dead, police said that Datu Unsay mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. made sure that the 57 people slain in the Maguindanao massacre.

Quoting several witnesses, Chief Superintendent Ericson Velasquez of the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group said Ampatuan Jr. himself approached the bloodied bodies of the victims and shot them again.

Velasquez also disclosed that aside from Ampatuan Jr., Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr. and several other provincial and police officials were also tagged for their involvement in the carnage.

He said witnesses interviewed by investigators — including two militamen who participated in the killings — bolstered the findings of forensic and ballistics examinations that the bodies were shot at close range.

The younger Ampatuan has already been arrested and detained at the National Bureau of Investigation.

PNP chief director general Jesus Verzosa also recommended a cash reward for the arrest of the 161 massacre suspects who remain at large.

Verzosa said they received information that some of the suspects have already joined Muslim secessionist groups in the province.

Source: Philstar