Pubdate: Mon, 30 May 2005
Source: Manila Times (Philippines)
Copyright: 2005, The Manila Times
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CEBU'S VIGILANTE KILLINGS RISE TO 59

CEBU CITY: Men wearing helmets gunned down two men 19 hours on Friday,
bringing to 59 the number of vigilante-style executions since December
22.

First to fall was a suspected drug peddler, shot thrice by a gunman
who barged into his house Friday night.

Norberto Cana, 30, a police asset, was watching TV in his house on R.
Palmas Street when he was attacked. The gunman's companion was waiting
on a motorcycle nearby.

Earlier in the day, a man with no criminal record was shot dead by two
unidentified men at dawn.

Dexter Tiro, 26, was standing in front of a shanty on Urot Street at 2
a.m. when a motorcycle with two passengers approached him.

As the attacks continued, Chief Supt. Eduardo Gador, the Central
Visayas regional police chief, urged witnesses to trust the police and
shed light on the murders.

Gador admitted they have had little progress in solving the murders,
but pointed out that the lack of witnesses prevented them from coming
up with solutions. 
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