The police were looking into the angle that the killing of Senior Insp. Jonas Tahanlangit on Monday afternoon in San Francisco town on Camotes Island was drug-related, authorities said.
Senior Supt. Clifford Gairanod, director of the Cebu Provincial Police Office, said the two gunmen who pulled off the ambush on Tahanlangit, Poro police chief, were connected to a “big time” drug syndicate operating on the island.
He said they already had the identities of the perpetrators and were hunting them down.
Prior to the ambush, Gairanod said, Tahanlangit had been receiving death threats presumably from the illegal drugs syndicates who were affected by the intensified anti-drug operations conducted by the victim.
Tahanlangit was heading back to Poro down on board his black Toyota Hilux pickup from the port of San Francisco town, Camotes when he was ambushed by two men on board a motorcycle.
Two teenagers, who hitched a ride with the police chief, were hurt and were in stable condition.