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CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna, Philippines -- An unidentified gunman shot dead a village head in San Pablo City, Laguna on Saturday morning, police said.

Senior Superintendent Felipe Rojas, Laguna police director, identified the victim as Marco Provenciano, 53, chairman of the village of Atisan, San Pablo City.

The victim was in the old cemetery of the city at about 10:15 a.m. when the assailant shot him in the head. Rojas said a .45-caliber shell was found at the scene.

Rojas said they were eyeing politics as the motive for the killing.

He said Provenciano was a first-time village chief in San Pablo City.

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• Grenade thrown at Silay mayor’s home, no one hurt
• Extortion gang owns up to General Santos City blast
• Drug bust nets 2 female pushers

• Transport strikers to set up ‘chokepoints’ in GenSan
• Iloilo City police on red alert for transport strike
• Manero's brother abducted by NPA--military
• Court of Appeals dismisses rape case filed vs 13-yr-old boy
• Negros seeks power barge as stop-gap measure on brownouts
• Light aircraft damaged in bouncy touchdown; no one hurt
• Japanese contractors hesitant on SCTEx interchange
• Bishop urges people to join transport strike
• Ex-Mandaue college head arrested for alleged slay plot