Ambush kills cop, wounds 2 in QC
A policeman was shot dead in his own Quezon City neighborhood by motorcycle-riding assailants who also wounded two bystanders Thursday night.
A policeman was shot dead in his own Quezon City neighborhood by motorcycle-riding assailants who also wounded two bystanders Thursday night.
After surviving an ambush in Cagayan, Secretary Manuel Mamba on Tuesday motored back to Manila, stumped why Cagayan Gov. Alvaro Antonio wasn’t arrested after allegedly opening fire at their convoy with an AK-47.
A district school supervisor was killed while a school principal was wounded in an ambush staged by two unidentified motorcycle-riding men at SK Pendatun, Maguindanao, on the eve of Election Day.
A supporter of a mayoral candidate sustained a gunshot wound in the leg Saturday during the delivery of precinct count optical scan machines and other election materials to a mountain village in Tuburan town, but police were doubtful he was shot by an assailant.
Two soldiers were killed and six others hurt on Thursday morning when suspected communist rebels attacked a military convoy ferrying precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines to a village in Tabuk City in Kalinga, the Cordillera police said.
Two persons including the husband of a town mayor were killed and another was wounded in an ambush by heavily armed men in Lemery town, Iloilo province, Monday morning.
Emotions ran high in four Lanao del Norte towns and three in Lanao del Sur as relatives on Saturday buried 12 persons who were killed when armed men ambushed the campaign team of Nunungan, Lanao del Norte, Mayor Abdulmalik Manamparan on Thursday.
The death toll in Thursday’s ambush on the campaign party of Mayor Abdulmalik Manarampan of Nunungan, Lanao del Norte, has risen to 13 with the death of one of the injured victims, the military said Saturday.
Police said Saturday they have identified and are hunting eight gunmen who killed 13 people in an ambush on a mayor, an attack that cast a pall of fear over upcoming elections.
Two people were killed while a village official was wounded after unidentified armed men ambushed a group of supporters of the Revilla political clan right in their Bacoor City bailiwick late Thursday.
One was killed and two others wounded, including a village chief, in an alleged ambush in Cavite Thursday evening, police said Friday.
Twelve people were killed and several others were wounded, including the incumbent mayor of Nunungan town, Lanao del Norte, in an ambush Thursday night, police said Friday.
It’s not a case of extortion but a reflection of an ongoing civil war. Renato Reyes, secretary general of the leftist group Bayan Muna, on Tuesday dismissed military claims that the New People’s Army (NPA) attack on the convoy of Mayor Ruth Guingona was a “case of plain extortion.”
