THE KILLINGS IN RAMON, ISABELA/ COPS USELESS?

     A certain Reynaldo "Dagul" Aquino, 43, a cockpit gaffer, was gunned down two nights ago in Oscariz, Ramon, Isabela, while drinking hard liquor with a companion in the village market. It was "apagsipnget" when the assassin allegedly arrived, called out the victim's name, "Manong Dagul!" and shot him at his upper right arm. The bullet pierced the arm and went through his abdomen. It was dark and nobody saw the killer as he walked away. Last month, a certain Eddie Ganer, in his 50s was also, shot dead in the same village by an unknown assailant.

Camp Vizcarra in Aguinaldo, Ramon, Isabela. Below, part of the Magat High Dam, one of the biggest in Southeast Asia

     Aquino and Ganer were two of the more than 10 people, a great number of them village chiefs, murdered in the town for the past several years. The killers are scot-free. Town cops useless and need to be replaced? Oscariz villagers believe that the murderers of Aquino and Ganer are residents of Oscariz.