Ex-vice mayor of Maguindanao del Sur slain in ambush

AMBUSHED. Civilians mill around the vehicle driven by former Vice Mayor Sittie Jinn Lumenda of Rajah Buayan, Maguindanao del Sur, who was killed in an ambush on Wedneaday in Barangay Pingguiaman, Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat. (Photo from DXMS Radyo Bida)

TACURONG CITY, Sultan Kudarat — Unidentified gunmen ambushed and killed on Wednesday in Lambayong town, Sultan Kudarat province a former vice mayor of Rajah Buayan in Maguindanao del Sur.

Major Jhethro Doligas, Lambayong police chief, identified the victims as Sittie Jinn Utto Lumenda, who died from bullet wounds in the head.

Her father, Datu Jonathan Lumenda, was critically injured and is now undergoing treatment in a local hospital.

Doligas said the former vice mayor, also a health worker, was driving the family-owned Toyota Hi-Lux (plate number ABC-6348) when waylaid around 1 p.m. in Barangay Pingguiaman.

“We condemn in the strongest possible terms the senseless killing of former vice mayor Lumenda,” Doligas said.

Police investigators are still investigating the possible motive of the attack.

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