Seeing Lacno had untied himself, one of the abductors immediately threw him to the ground. The two wrestled down a slope until the military man was left hanging on a tree. Lacno then ran as fast as he could.
The military men gave chase, Lacno said. For more than two days, he walked and swam rivers until he could hitch a ride in Sta. Cruz, Laguna, he narrated. Friends have secured him for his safety.
In a separate testimony, Ancheta’s wife, Carmen, said she was about to meet her husband in front of South Supermarket in Guiguinto, Bulacan, south of Manila, at 6:30 p.m. on June 24. Carmen waited until 9 p.m. but her husband did not show up. She then called up Palma who confirmed that they dropped Ancheta in front of a school in Barangay (village) Tuctucan, same town.
Worried, Carmen asked help from a human rights group. In a fact finding in Tuctucan, the rights group learned from some tricycle drivers that a man fitting the description of Ancheta was forcibly taken into a van by burly men armed with rifles in front of the supermarket at around 6:30 p.m. Ancheta’s alleged abductors used a vehicle similar to one of the vans used in the abduction of Calubid and company – a silver Toyota Revo with its plate number concealed with plastic.
Aside from the immediate surfacing of Palma and Soco, lawyers also asked the SC to order the military to present in court Calubid, Calubad, Beloy and Ancheta saying that they are covered by the JASIG.
