The junior officer identified the victims as PO1 Roy Tunsoy and Villarmino Hectin, a security consultant of Sagittarius Mines.
Hectin was brought to a hospital in Digos City but didn’t make it alive, Barber said.
Meanwhile, the two CAFGU members have been brought to the Camp Panacan military hospital in Davao City for treatment, he added.
Due to the fresh violence, which occurred at 1 p.
m. Wednesday in Sitio Maklak in Barangay Kimlawis, Davao del Sur, Sagittarius Mines has suspended work in the mines development site.
John B. Arnaldo, Sagittarius mines external communications and media relations manager, said that unidentified armed individuals ambushed a police vehicle escorting a water truck traveling in the mine site.
Arnaldo declined to give further details, saying the police and the military have secured the area.
“As a precautionary measure all our activities within the project area have been temporarily suspended until further notice,” he said.
