BAGUIO CITY — Authorities on Thursday reported that hostilities between the tribesmen of Bugnay, Tinglayan, Kalinga and Betwagan, Sadanga in Mountain Province has resumed anew, resulting to the death of a farmer and wounding of another.

The Kalinga Provincial Police Office identified the fatality as Richard Bannoya Sagwil while the injured was identified as Edward Chay-as Alunday — both farmers and residents of Bugnay.

According to reports from the Kalinga Provincial Police Office, the two were walking down the foot trail at Mt. Kumaykay in Bugnay, Tinglayan on Tuesday to deliver food to their fellow tribes men at the rice fields when armed men who were positioned around 500 meters away from the two opened fire.

The sudden burst of gunfire resulted to the immediate death of Sagwil after he was hit on his left eye. Alunday was hit on his abdomen. Their fellow tribesmen who came to the rescue have to wait until past 5 p.m. in order to get the two victims.

The tribesmen retrieved the body of Sagwil and some of them rushed Alunday to the Tinglayan Municipal Health Office.

The perpetrators allegedly belonged to the Betwagan Tribe of Sadanga.

To recall, Betwagan Tribe of Sadanga and Butbut Tribe of Tinglayan have a decades-old boundary dispute and countless efforts to restore the peace between the two tribes were futile.