KIDAPAWAN CITY: Five alleged notorious drug dealers and members of a gun-for-hire group were killed, while four others were arrested in an anti-drug operation in Kabacan, North Cotabato, early on Thursday morning.

Authorities were about to serve search warrants in Sitio Sugod at about 4 a.m. when a volley of gunfire greeted them from the house of Odin Udtig Acoy, alias “Kumander Butterfly.” Troops retaliated, killing Acoy, including his cohort identified as Ali Araneta Salim, Gardo Kalma Tapa, Valencia Madaliday Guiabalael and Abdul Udtig Acoy.

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