Village chairman, wife dead in Cebu town shooting

CEBU CITY — A barangay captain and his wife were shot dead by two motorcycle-riding assailants along the national highway of Asturias town, Cebu on Tuesday.

Manguiao barangay captain Mario Delfin Tundag was riding a motorcycle with his wife Edna when two persons on board another motorcycle fired at them.

Police said the still unidentified assailants may have been trailing the couple and got the chance to fire on them at Barangay Poblacion.

In his report, Asturias town police chief Major Alden Zambrano said that the Tundag couple came from neighboring Balamban town and were on their way home to Manguiao in Asturias.

After the shooting of the couple, the two suspects immediately fled towards Balamban.

Zambrano told reporters that the shooting could have been political in nature though they were still looking at other possible angles.

The investigators are now checking who are the political opponents of barangay captain Tundag.

Footage of a closed-circuit television secured by the police showed that the suspects were wearing black helmets and white long sleeve shirts.

A hot pursuit operation was already launched by the police following the incident.

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