Family of 4 slain in Cagayan

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Philippines – A couple and their two children aged one and five were massacred in a remote mountain village in Gattaran, Cagayan and land dispute is being eyed in the killing, police said yesterday.

Senior Superintendent Gregorio Notto Lim, provincial police director, said the victims – Danny Baguiwang, his wife Reymalyn and children Reydan, 5, and Reymond, 1 –  were stabbed dead in their hut in the village of Mabuno.

Police said a certain Reynaldo Bitanga found the victims’ bodies.

Lim told The STAR that investigators were looking into a land dispute behind the killing. – Raymund Catindig, Cecille Suerte Felipe