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Farmers are the most important and most neglected people there are in the Philippines. Without them everyone would starve. So say hello and thank you to these brave men, those who have not been murdered anyway!

Hi, my name is Jovanie Padere. I got in an argument with a fellow farmer and I chopped his head off. Some people called the cops after they saw me carrying a rice sack with the man's head. The cops were called and they tried to arrest me. When I fought back they shot me dead. 

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1727615/farmer-who-allegedly-beheaded-another-farmer-shot-dead-in-davao-de-oro

A farmer who allegedly beheaded another farmer was shot dead in Davao de Oro after he reportedly attempted to fight back authorities who tried to arrest him.

In a police report on Thursday, the Nabunturan Municipal Police Station (MPS) identified the suspect as Jovanie Padere.

According to the MPS, it conducted a response operation against the suspect after receiving a complaint about a hacking incident in Sitio New Badian, Bukal, Nabunturan on Wednesday morning from two witnesses.

One of the witnesses testified that he saw the suspect with a rice sack containing the head of another farmer.

This prompted police officers to respond to the scene, where they saw the headless body of the victim, identified as Joel Avila, 58. The headless body, according to police, was found in the ravine while its head was recovered more or less 500 meters away.

Authorities then received information that the suspect was located in a small hut near the crime scene. They proceeded to the site to arrest the suspect.

Upon their arrival near the hut, police officers asked Padere about the hacking incident but the suspect reportedly raised his bolo and rushed towards the law enforcers.

This prompted a member of the responding team to shoot the suspect, who instantly died.

Hi, my name is Michael Cardenas. I was out having a drinking session with two friends who are brothers. One of them was a soldier named Mark. He got real wasted and his brother Jomar advised him to stop drinking but he didn't take kindly to that. A fistfight ensued and Jomar pushed Mark into me. That was when I stabbed him repeatedly until he was dead. 

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1646057/police-hunt-down-farmer-for-slay-of-soldier-in-samar

Police are going after a farmer who allegedly stabbed dead a soldier during a drinking spree in Calbayog City, Samar on Thursday night.

The fatality was identified as Private First Class Mark Dian Fuentes, 32, and assigned to the 19th Infantry Battalion based in Matuguinao town, also in Samar.

Reports reaching the regional office of the Philippine National Police based in Palo, Leyte, said that the victim had a drinking spree with his elder brother, Jomar; an uncle; and the suspect, Michael Cardenas, 36, at past 9 p.m. at his house in Barangay Marcatingog, Tinambacan District in Tacloban.

The victim’s brother advised him to stop drinking as he was already drunk. However, this was misconstrued by the victim. A fist fight between the two ensued.

During the commotion, the elder brother pushed the victim towards Cardenas who stabbed the soldier repeatedly hitting him on his chest, abdomen, stomach, and front hip.

The victim was immediately brought by his relatives to the St. Camillus Hospital, Calbayog City but was declared dead on arrival by the attending physician.

The  suspect fled towards an unknown direction.

Hi, my name is Mario Telibangko. As a farmer land is very important to me. If I don't have land then I can't grow crops and I can't make money. That's why the argument between me and my brother over land was so heated. In fact I got so angry that I hacked him the neck with a machete, killing him. 

https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1947483/cebu/local-news/farmer-hacks-brother-in-law-to-death-while-arguing

A LABORER was killed by his own brother-in-law in Sitio Tagaytay, Barangay Pansoy in the northern town of Sogod, Cebu, on Tuesday afternoon, November 29, 2022.

The victim was identified as 41-year-old Froilan Orlanes, a resident in the area.

The suspect, Mario Telibangko, a 62-year-old farmer, continues to be at large.

According to Lieutenant Phil Restauro, based on their initial investigation, Orlanes had been drinking before the incident.

Around 4 p.m., he went to see Telibangko, who was feeding his goats.

The two ended up arguing.

Orlanes reportedly tried to physically intimidate the suspect, which irked the latter.

Telibangko pulled out a machete and hacked Orlanes in the neck.

Due to the size of the wound, Orlanes died.

“They had been at odds with each other. They were fighting over land,” Restauro said in Cebuano.

Hi, my name is Antonio Marquez Barcenal. Some neighbors wanted to ask my permission to hunt for boars on my property. Since I wasn't home when they came to ask they went hunting in my cornfield anyway. They heard a noise in the middle of the field and fired. When they went to inspect the fresh boar they had just shot they found me!

https://mb.com.ph/2022/12/02/farmer-mistaken-for-wild-boar-shot-dead-in-zamboanga-del-sur/

A 70-year-old farmer was shot dead after he was mistaken for a wild boar by a neighbor in Tigbao, Zamboanga del Sur on Wednesday, Nov. 30.

Major Shellamie Chang, Police Regional Office-9 information officer, identified the victim as Antonio Marquez Barcenal.

Chang said farmers Limpiado Tapic and Dennis Bacus Laure sought Barcenal at his corn storage to ask for permission to hunt wild boars in his corn field. They did not find Barcenal there and proceeded to the corn field to hunt.

Tapic heard noise and fired at the middle of the corn field. He proceeded to inspect but found out that he had shot Barcenal by mistake.

The incident was reported the following day to the police.

Hi, my name is Ricardo Mendoza. I was out for a walk on Valentine's Day when I encountered a wild boar. He charged me and took a bite out of my right upper thigh. Then he wandered off and left me to bleed to death. A passer-by found me later. 

https://mb.com.ph/2023/02/15/farmer-dies-in-wild-boar-attack-in-quezon/

The body of a 64-year-old farmer suspected to have been killed in a wild boar attack was found in a grassy lot on Valentine’s Day in Barangay Mangahan here.

Police identified the victim as Ricardo Mendoza, a resident of Barangay Mangahan.

Investigation said a passer-by found the body of Mendoza lying face down at about 5:30 p.m. The passer-by reported his discovery to the police who informed his relatives.

Police inspected the victim’s body and found what appears to be the bite of a wild boar in his right upper thigh.

Mendoza’s body was taken to a funeral home and subjected to an autopsy facilitated by the municipal health officer.

Hi, my name is Jerry Enisimo. I was riding my motorcycle to work when I happened to meet a guy in the middle of a sugarcane field. Our conversation quickly turned into an argument and he shot me once in the shoulder and in the head.

https://mb.com.ph/2023/01/14/farmer-shot-dead-in-negros-town/

A farmer was gunned down by an unidentified attacker at Sitio Ka Blas, Barangay Tabun-ac, Toboso, Negros Occidental on Friday, Jan. 13.

Killed was Jerry Enisimo, 45, of Barangay Tabun-ac.

Toboso police chief Maj. Jun Ray Batadlan said the victim was riding a motorcycle on his way to work when he chanced upon the suspect in the middle of the sugarcane field.

A heated argument allegedly ensued between them, resulting in the shooting incident, Batadlan said.

Batadlan said the suspect shot the victim in his left shoulder, and shot him again in the head when he fell from his motorcycle.

Police recovered from the crime scene two fired cartridges and a dud bullet of .45 caliber pistol.

Hi, my name is Clemente Cochapin. I went to go inspect my farm equipment one Sunday night to make sure everything was ready for the morning. But I never made it. On a path in a cornfield I was assailed and assaulted. I was hacked to death by an unknown person. 

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1717203/farmer-hacked-to-death-in-ilocos-norte-town

Police were hunting down the suspects in the fatal hacking of a 48-year-old farmer from Paoay town in Ilocos Norte province, police said Monday, Jan. 16.

Investigators identified the farmer as Clemente Cochapin. His body was discovered by a resident in a cornfield in the town’s Sta. Rita village.

Police said Cochapin went out at around 9:30 p.m. on Sunday to check on his farm equipment.

“While on the pathway of the cornfield, he was hacked and stabbed by unidentified suspects,” police said in a report.

The police report noted that the victim sustained multiple wounds, causing his instantaneous death.”

Hi, our names are Sorbeto Quinto, Arnold Cullamar, and Erl Danielle Gulinao. Quinto was a barangay tanod who was gunned down. Guilano was a government worker who was gunned down on his way home. And me, Arnold Cullamar, I was a sugarcane farmer who was killed when someone barged into my house and shot me while I was asleep. 

https://www.philstar.com/nation/2023/02/03/2242119/batangas-village-watchman-shot-dead

A barangay tanod was killed in a gun attack in Batangas on Wednesday night, police said.

Sorbeto Quinto, 53, village watchman of Barangay Wawa in Batangas City, was about to enter his house at around 9 p.m. when the assailant appeared from behind and shot him in the head, Col. Pedro Soliba, Batangas police director, said.

Quinto was declared dead on arrival at the Golden Gate Hospital.

Meanwhile, sugarcane farmer Arnold Cullamar was sleeping when an unidentified man barged into his house and shot him at around 8:20 p.m.

In Bulacan, Erl Danielle Gulinao, 27, an employee of the Sta. Maria municipal government, was on a motorcycle on his way home when he was gunned down.

Hi, my name is Lopez Guiama. I was transporting a bag of cement back to my place in order to do some repairs when a motorcycle pulled up next to me and the guy riding tandem started firing. They did not kill me but only wounded me. I am part of a series of killings happening in Pikit. Last year there were 30 killings all of which remain unsolved. Pikit is part of the BARMM which is run by the MILF terrorist group. BARMM Minister and MILF Chairman Ahod “Al Haj Murad” Ebrahim has thankfully assured everything these shooting and killings is not part of a Muslim-Christian war. 

https://mb.com.ph/2023/02/17/situation-in-pikit-amid-spate-of-shooting-incidents-under-control-cppo/

The Cotabato Provincial Police Office has assured the public that the situation in Pikit, North Cotabato is still manageable amid the series of shooting incidents that left two minors dead and three others wounded in a span of two days.

Due to these series of shooting incidents, CPPO director Police Col. Harold Ramos said that combined police and military forces have beefed up their security measures in the municipality.

Ramos added they have intensified police checkpoints in all entry and exit points of Pikit.

On February 14, a 13-year old high school student was gunned down while he was walking with his fellow students on their way home. 

Police identified the lone fatality as Fahad Dilabuan Guiamalon while those injured were identified as Jenuar Abdul, 13, and Marjan Amerol Iskak 14.

On February 16, a 16-year old boy was shot by still unidentified assailants while sitting inside their store in Barangay Fort Pikit.

Earlier on the same day, a 42-year old farmer identified as Lopez Guiama was shot by riding-in-tandem suspects while transporting a sack of cement.

Guiama, who sustained a gunshot wound on his arm and neck, is now recuperating in a local hospital.

The police officer admitted that maintaining the peace and order in Pikit is generally challenging given its geographic location. 

“One big problem here is the proliferation of loose firearms in the area,” Ramos said over the phone.