injured farmer takes boy hostage

BUTUAN CITY — Policemen arrested a 41-year-old farmer from Surigao City who took hostage a 10-year-old boy inside Butuan City Medical Center at Kilometer 3, Barangay Baan, this city at past 5 a.m. Friday.

Butuan police precinct 3 chief Senior Inspector Ferdinand Bokingo Dacillo identified the suspect as Edilberto Rodilla of Maragusan, Compostela Valley Province who lives at 510 Cleanville Compound, Barangay Mayuno Uno, Las Piñas City.

Address of Cecilia, Rodilla’s wife, is placed at Talisay Street, Poblacion Maragusan, Compostela Valley province.

Initial police investigation revealed that a Bachelor Bus from Surigao City arrived at the Butuan City Medical Center carrying an injured Rodilla who allegedly jumped from the bus somewhere in Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte.

Hospital authorities failed to get the plate number of the passenger bus and the identities of persons who brought Rodilla to the hospital.

While waiting for treatment for nearly one hour inside the hospital, the suspect allegedly grabbed 10 year old Nike Josol who was with his aunt, Gondellina Josol, a Barangay Kagawad of Maug, Butuan City.

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Municipality of Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte, Philippines

 Kitcharao…

Legend has it that two powerful kings once ruled Kitcharao, Mangipikan, who ruled the north and Busaylan, who ruled the south. A dispute over their respective hunting territories eventually broke out into an open war where each side fought furiously until the subjects of King Busaylan were driven to the hills. The victorious King Mangipikan ordered his mighty hoard to uproot crops and other plants on their way, crushing, biting and scattering their stems on the ground to show their victory. Kit-kit ug Isarao (bite and Scatter the Plants), the King’s order, thus became associated with the name of the unsettled plain of abundance. Time has shortened this famous battlecry to Kitcharao, the name by which the same place is known today.

It was a barangay of Municipality of Jabonga, It was created through R.A. 3842.  

Area : 225 square kilometer

Population : 15,950 (2000 NSO Census)

People/Dialects : Bisaya, Cebuanos, Surigaonon, Boholanon, Mamanwa

Boudaries: 

           Municipalities of Alegria and Gigaquit, Surigao del Norte in the north; Municipality of Claver, Surigao del Norte in the East; Municipality of Jabonga, Agusan del Norte in the South; and The scenic Lake Mainit in the west. 

Barangay :

            The eleven barangay are Poblacion, Songkoy, Crossing, Mahayahay, Hinimbangan, Sangay, San Roque, Canaway, San Isidro, Jaliobong and Bangayan.