An article from the Sun Star regarding the death of my cousin

Two soldiers perish in noontime ambush

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- Two soldiers died in an afternoon ambush Sunday near a crowded department store in Cagayan de Oro.

The casualties were initially identified as Captain Paulman Sadat Hoffer Tamano and Private Nabral Barra who died on the spot after unidentified men on a car sprayed bullets at their Toyota Hilux vehicle along Mastersons Avenue near SM City.

Both were members of the Military Intelligence Battalion of the army's Fourth Infantry Division based in Camp Evangelista in Barangay Patag.

SPO1 Jayson Landar of the Carmen police said initial investigation showed that a "rido" or blood feud may have been the cause of the killings.

Tamano is a Maranao while Barra is a Tausug.

Police said the victims' vehicle was heading towards the SM mall area, Upper Carmen, at around 1 p.m. when gunmen inside a red Honda CRV appeared beside their car and fired at them.

Witnesses said the assailants disembarked from their vehicle and approached the victims' car, which had lost control and smashed into a roadside tree, apparently to finish them off.

After the incident, the assailants then went back their vehicle and speeded off, witnesses added.

Landar said their investigation on the incident was ongoing and that police still had no suspects as of Sunday afternoon.

In last night's interview over radio dxIF, Fourth Infantry Division civil-media relations officer Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Simbajon said the two victims were about to fetch their parents when the incident occurred.

He said the two victims had no known enemies and were assigned somewhere in Davao. (Sun.Star SuperBalita/With Danilo V. Adorador III/Sunnex)