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EXCLUSIVE: 29 of SAF 44 were shot in the head – autopsy reports


Twenty-nine of the 44 police Special Action Force members killed in the Mamasapano clash in Maguindanao were shot in the head, GMA News' “24 Oras” reported on Friday.
 
According to the report which cited the autopsy results, most of the fallen PNP-SAF members sustained gunshot wounds to their head, face, neck and chest.
 
 
A reliable source told GMA News that the victims were probably shot at close range based on the bruises from their gunshot wounds.
 
The PNP-SAF were also equipped with bullet proof vests so those with wounds to the body most likely were stripped of their protective gear, the source said.
 
The following are some findings of the autopsies on some of the Fallen 44:
 
  • P/Insp. Rennie Tayrus, subleader of the 84th SAF seaborn sustained gunshot wounds to the head, back, and lower body.
  • P/Sr. Insp. Ryan Pabalinas, whom SAF officer-in-charge Chief Supt. Noli Taliño said was the person he last talked to on the radio during the mission sustained gunshot wounds to the head, neck and body.
  • Pabalinas sustained a total of fourteen gunshot wounds.
  • P/Sr. Insp. Gednat Tabdi, who was reportedly the one who cut Zulkifli bin Hir also known as Marwan's finger for DNA sampling, sustained a single gunshot wound to the head.
  • P/Sr. Insp. Max Jim Tria, reportedly the last man standing on the side of the PNP-SAF's 55th company, sustained gunshot wounds to his left arm and left thigh.
  • P02 Joseph Sagonoy, allegedly the downed SAF member who was killed in the start of the viral Mamasapano video, sustained two gunshot wounds to the head and another one in his thigh.

The Mamasapano assault involved 392 SAF personnel according to the SAF's operations plan of Operation Exodus and as later gathered by the Philippine National Police's Board of Inquiry. — Andrei Medina/ELR/JST, GMA News
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