By Lian Buan

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) filed on Tuesday, July 21, complaints of 4 counts of murder and 1 count of planting of evidence against 9 policemen from Jolo, Sulu, over a shooting incident last June which killed 4 army soldiers.

The soldiers died in an encounter at a police checkpoint in Jolo on June 29, with the police initially saying the soldiers took out their guns first, consistent with the ‘nanlaban’ or fighting back narrative of the controversial Philippine police.

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