The axe has fallen on the police chief of Sulu for allegedly failing to contain the violent clashes between armed supporters of local candidates in the province during last Monday’s elections.
With a voting population of just over 800, the special elections for five communities in Barangay (the village of) Gabi here could become one of the costliest, at least for the pockets of the candidates.
Election Day violence left one person dead in Sulu, one in Lanao del Sur and five in Zamboanga del Sur, police authorities said.
A free-for-all fist fight between supporters of two rival political parties left six of them wounded and another one admitted into a hospital for a gunshot wound during Monday’s balloting in Maguindanao.
A person was killed while 23 others were injured in violence committed during Election Day in Lanao del Sur. Local election monitors said that when compared to the extent of election violence in the past elections, Monday’s balloting in the province could be considered tame.
Secretary Manuel Mamba and his 13 companions on Monday afternoon escaped unharmed after Cagayan Gov. Alvaro Antonio, armed with an AK-47 rifle, allegedly fired at their convoy in Alcala town in Cagayan province.
Another scuffle between supporters of rival political camps reportedly marred Election Day in Taguig City.
Had the handgun of the reelectionist vice mayor of Ozamiz City not jammed, a television cameraman would have become another statistic in the long list of media-related killings in the country, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) said in a statement on Monday.
A teary-eyed Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. cried foul, on Monday, over what he called political harassment by members of the Cavite police against him and his family.
A man was wounded in a gun battle between a still unidentified armed group and the police in Cavite City on Sunday evening.
Gunmen on Saturday night ambushed supporters of a vice mayoral candidate in Banisilan, North Cotabato, leaving one dead and two others wounded.
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.
New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas killed two soldiers and two militiamen, and wounded eight others in separate attacks Thursday on security teams delivering computer equipment for Monday’s elections, officials said.
