DOJ-led body searches for witnesses in Echanis, Alvarez killings

Published March 09, 2021 03:31 PM By VIRGIL LOPEZ,GMA News

An inter-agency investigative body is looking for witnesses who can help solve last year's killing of activists Randall Echanis and Zara Alvarez.

“We continue to look for witnesses who will help us uncover kung ano po yung nangyari diyan at kung maaari po sana ay mapanagot natin kung sino yung involve dito sa pagpatay dito sa mga personalidad po na ito,” Justice Undersecretary Adrian Sugay said during a Tuesday Palace news conference.

Alvarez was shot dead last August 17 in Bacolod City

. She was a teacher, a single mother, and a former campaign and education director, and a current paralegal of the human rights group Karapatan.

She was killed days after Echanis, a peasant leader and peace consultant, was found dead in Quezon City.

Their deaths are being investigated by the AO 35 task force on extrajudicial killings led by the Department of Justice. — DVM, GMA News

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