Top Davao Oriental councilor shot dead
The No. 1 elected councilor in this municipality was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Sunday, but authorities were quick to rule out politics as the motive behind the murder.
The No. 1 elected councilor in this municipality was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Sunday, but authorities were quick to rule out politics as the motive behind the murder.
On the eve of the May 10 elections in 2010, four supporters of a candidate for mayor were killed while five others were wounded when policemen opened fire at their vehicles in Tibiao town, Antique.
A bullet-riddled man whom Jose Galera found outside his house in Barangay (village) Sagap in Bangued, Abra, on Monday, Election Day, is a mystery that needs solving.
LEGAZPI CITY—Catholic priest Fr. Leo Casas failed in his attempt to provide alternative politics to the island-province of Masbate long dominated by two political clans, as he trailed far, far behind his two opponents in the gubernatorial race won by the incumbent, Gov. Rizalina Seachon-Lanete. Lanete, of the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) got 77,222 [...]
Justice Secretary Leila De Lima on Tuesday ordered National Bureau of Investigation Director Nonnatus Rojas to look into the circumstances surrounding the standoff at mansion of Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. in Cavite on Monday.
A leader of communist rebels operating in Central Luzon has admitted responsibility for the murder of a mayoral candidate in San Jose town in Tarlac last week.
At least 10 men were arrested following an alleged shooting incident in Manila Monday afternoon, police said.
Unidentified men opened fire at a vehicle boarded by Presidential Legislative Liaison Officer Secretary Manuel Mamba in Cagayan, but no one was hurt, police said.
The Cavite Police Provincial Office said there is not enough evidence to link Senator Ramon Bong Revilla to the firearms recovered outside the compound of the Revilla’s mansion in Cavite before dawn Monday.
Two soldiers were killed while six others were wounded on Thursday when communist rebels attacked a military convoy delivering precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines to a village in Tabuk City, Kalinga, reports from the Cordillera police said.
Philippine officials say despite scattered killings and fears of fraud, congressional and local elections on Monday are expected to be relatively peaceful after authorities took drastic steps to prevent any chaos.
Five people were killed in separate ambushes in the volatile southern Philippines, police and the military said Sunday, and a radio reporter was kidnapped by armed men on the eve of mid-term elections.
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.
