Anyway, whoever is behind all this should be punished and I hope the victims get the justice they deserve. I do not condone cheating in gambling but is killing really the way? Let us pray for the victims.
The case is indeed based on gambling, but for murder cases, it must be handled based on the laws in force there. But for cases of cheating in gambling, in this case, it is also unacceptable for the party that is indeed harmed.
Cockfighting allows them to bet very big. Even for some groups that dominate the region, no one should be brave enough to take the risk of cheating.
Be a lesson not to offend others who might give responses beyond our expectations. Although there is also a possibility that the cheating that was done was not done.
If gambling is connected to murder case, then, it is already a different story. It only shows that people can resort to violent actions when it comes to desperate situations faced in gambling. Though we don't know the very reason why they were killed, it still demonstrate that because of gambling, they lost their life.
And every gambler should not go thru to that extreme manner of losing their life because there will always a better way how to handle such cases. But in that case, whoever was the main culprit, thought that it was the only way to silence those people from disclosing anything to the public.