3 suspects in cop slay
caught not NPA men
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

Police announced yesterday the arrest of three suspects in the liquidation of PO3 Danilo Malunes in Brgy. Inawayan, Cauayan, Negros Occidental, about 48 hours after his death.

Senior Supt. Rosendo Franco, provincial police director, identified those arrested as Russel Langkoyan, alias Penot, 18; Robert Domdom, alias Mine, 39, and his cousin, Felipe Domdom, alias Aming, 26.

Franco said two of the three suspects were positively identified by Arnie, wife of Malunes, and other witnesses, as among those who had participated in the assassination of the policeman on Friday.

Two persons were killed and seven injured in two vehicular accidents in Bago City and Valladolid , Negros Occidental, during the weekend, police said yesterday.

Police identified the fatalities as Francis Noel Labayen, 22, and John Ivan Calu-oy, 26, residents of Bacolod City and Sipalay, respectively.

Labayen died at about 5 a.m. yesterday at the Sanitarium Hospital , his father, Francis, 52, reported to the Bago City Police Station.

Air Transportation Office Executive Director Daniel Dimagiba yesterday said their position remains the same that the old Bacolod Airport should continue to be closed due to its proximity to the new airport in Silay.

He said they submitted their recommendation to the office of Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro Mendoza last month.

However, when asked if this is the final recommendation of the 11-man team he created to study the request of Mayor Evelio Leonardia for the reopening of the Bacolod Airport , Dimagiba, in a phone interview, said he does not know anything about the creation of an 11-man team and suggested that Mendoza be asked about it.