CEBU (Mindanao Examiner / 02 May) – Unidentified gunman shot dead a mayoralty candidate in an attack Wednesday in Cebu, police said.
Police said Rogelio Ilustrisimo, who was running as mayor In Santa Fe town in Cebu’s Bantayan island, was killed instantly. The motive of the killing is still unknown, but police suspect the attack was probably connected to politics.
Filipinos are to elect their senators and congressman and local officials in the May 14 elections. Philippine elections are traditionally violent and bloody.
Just last week, a gunman killed Mayor Julian Resuello, of San Carlos City in Pangasinan province, north of Manila. One of his police escort was also killed in the attack.
Angelito Soriano, the suspect in the murder of the mayor, who was wounded in a firefight with police, has been arrested at a hospital in San Carlos City. (Mindanao Examiner)
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