Two people were killed and a third one, a barangay official, was wounded when unidentified armed men fired at a group of supporters of Bacoor City Mayor Strike Revilla on Thursday evening.
Bacoor in Cavite is now officially a city after 36,226 of its residents voted “yes” in favor of the town’s conversion into a city.
The provincial government of Cavite threw its full support behind two of the province’s biggest municipalities as they prepare for a plebiscite that would ratify the municipalities’ conversion into cities.
Former Las Piñas City Representative Cynthia Villar on Friday filed a petition for Writ of Kalikasan against a reclamation project along the Bacoor-Las Pinas-Parañaque coastline of Manila Bay.
Armed robbers who held eight people hostage at a bank in Bacoor, Cavite released all their captives unharmed and surrendered after a stand-off lasting more than two hours, police said.
