2 HS STUDENTS DIE IN COTABATO AMBUSH

AN ambush in a remote village in Pikit, North Cotabato has left two junior high school students dead.

Pikit town police chief Maj. John Arvin Cambang identified the victims as Jamer Ebrahim, 21; and Muhaliden Amer, 20, both  Grade 11 students  and residents of Bgy.Poblacion, Pikit town.

Ebrahim and Amer died on the spot from multiple gunshot wounds.

An investigation showed the duo were on a motorbike on their way home when waylaid on the border of Ladtingan and Kalawag villages.

Responding lawmen found at the crime scene empty shells for cal. .45 pistol .

Police are hunting down the suspects and investigating the motive for the killing.