BANKEROHAN AREA is where to go to get killed
Davao City – This city known as the Most Livable City for the straight guys and Most Dangerous City for criminals has several areas one should avoid if you don’t want to be a victim of summary execution or by plain thrill killing.
The Bankerohan area where the city’s biggest public market is located is at the top of the list, with about 30 killed last year in stabbing and shooting by shadowy motorcycle-riding gunmen widely believed as the deadly Davao Death Squad.
Next in line is Quezon Blvd., with its coastal barangays at the city side of the Davao Gulf, where the Sta. Ana Police is becoming fed up with counting the killings partly by suspected DDS and partly by vicious youth gangs armed either with knives, Indian arrow or single-shot homemade pipe guns known as sumpak. Last year, nearly 50 people mostly men in their teens were killed in the attacks.
Next should be Bonguyan Beach Resort, owned no less by former Vice Mayor Luis Bonguyan, with about a dozen killings last year. Police say Bonguyan Beach has become a battle-ground for warring youth gangs and the best place for DDS to catch their next victims suspected of being involved in various criminalities. A magnet for the young, Bonguyan Beach is alive at night with young men and women staying till dawn for all-night partying of songs and booze.
SIR Matina, a government housing project, is also in the list, with about two dozens killed last year mostly by suspected DDS, with victims attested to by neighbors as into petty crimes like thievery and cellphone snatching.
But while the Bankerohan area is the most dangerous place not to be, the barangay offers amenities that the dead or the nearly dead needs.
If you are gasping for your breathe after taking a bullet in the head or a knife to the heart or abdomen, you have two hospitals to go to: the Davao Doctors Hospital and the Brokenshire Hospital, which are in the barangay.
If you fail to survive, Barangay Bankerohan has a public funeral parlor near its barangay hall where you could lay in wake for relatives to mourn your demise comfortably and for free.
Burial would not also worry you: the Davao City Public Cemetery, the Davao Memorial Park and the San Pedro Park is at the periphery of the barangay.
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