CRIME SCENE. The scene of the crime at the grounds of Bureau of Fire Protection Fire Station on San Juan Street, Bacolod City, where two firefighters stabbed each other, leaving one of them dead. The incident took place around 2 a.m. on Monday (Dec. 23, 2019) after the station held a Christmas party. (Photo courtesy of Bacolod City Police Office)
BACOLOD CITY -- A personnel of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) here died while another was wounded after they stabbed each other following the station’s Christmas party that ended around 2 a.m. on Monday.
The fatality was identified as Isaac Cabana and the wounded, Cornelio Silva, who both have the rank of Fire Officer 3.
Initial police investigation showed the two firefighters remained at the venue, just in front of the city fire station on San Juan Street, Barangay 8, after the celebration ended.
Maj. Sherlock Gabana, chief of Police Station 2, said Cabana sustained a wound in the neck and was declared dead at a hospital.
Silva is being treated for abdomen and back wounds, he added.
Gabana said their other colleagues saw them “hugging” each other, and then found the two already injured.
Investigators recovered a fan knife, but have yet to determine to whom the weapon belongs, and who initiated the incident.
“We still have to determine the motive as the investigation is ongoing,” Gabana said. (PNA)
