A policeman died while six of his companions in the police service were hurt in a vehicular accident in Barangay Poblacion in Alabel, Sarangani before dawn Thursday, June 19, 2025.
Officials of the Sarangani Provincial Police Office and the Police Regional Office-12 told reporters at noon Friday that the seven policemen were together in a Toyota Innova, on their way to General Santos City from the wake in Barangay Poblacion in Alabel of the mother of Chief Master Sgt. Rustico Catimbang, Jr., who passed away early this week, when they figured in the highway mishap.
Lt. Col. Reynaldo Delantein, chief of the Alabel municipal police, said the accident left Police Executive Master Sgt. Wilfredo Ollosa Jr. dead.
Their vehicle, driven by Executive Master Sgt. Michael Sutelo, reportedly veered towards the left side of the route and hit head-on a concrete highway center barrier at the CP Garcia Street in Barangay Poblacion in Alabel, causing the instant death of Ollosa, who was at the front seat.
Emergency responders immediately transported to a hospital the badly injured Sutelo and five other policemen, Chief Master Sgt. Ernel Bullag, Senior Master Sergeants Gleen Sealmoy, Edgardo Fontanilla and Jerwin Munar, and Corporal Rainier Ortiz.
Delantein said the accident fatality Ollosa and all of his companions belong to the Regional Headquarters Support Unit at the headquarters of the Police Regional Office-12 in Barangay Tambler in General Santos City. (JFU, June 19, 2025, Cotabato City)
