Zambo Sur town declares fallen SAF officers as heroes

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Posted by Mindanao Pagadian Frontline Hirohito D. Cadion

Dumalinao Mayor Ace Cerilles (Photo by Jong Cadion)

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Jan. 31 (PNA) -- Mayor Ace William Cerilles of the nearby Dumalinao town said the death of the Special Action Force (SAF) police officers, who were his town mates, is a great loss for his municipality.

Cerilles issued the statement as he joined the arrival honors ceremony Saturday afforded to the late Senior Insp. John Garry Erana, the commanding officer of the 55th Special Action Company.

Erana, who hails from Dumalinao town, this province, is one of the 44 SAF policemen, including seven officers, that killed in the alleged “misencounter” last Sunday in Barangay Tukanalipao, Mamasapano, Maguindanao.

The remains of Erana arrived here at 9 a.m. Saturday aboard a commercial plane from Manila.

 

Supposedly, the remains of three slain SAF policemen, including Erana, are scheduled to arrive here Saturday.