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BAGUIO CITY — A barangay (village) chairman of Tayum town in Abra province was slain on Wednesday (March 30) by motorcycle-riding gunmen as he drove through the capital town of Bangued.
Daycarlo Paligutan Millare, 39-year-old chairman of Barangay (village) Budac, was driving an Isuzu Elf truck to Candon City in Ilocos Sur province to deliver Virginia tobacco when he was shot dead by gunmen riding on a black XRM motorcycle at 2 a.m. along Patucannay village, the Cordillera police said.
Millare’s passengers – Julius Millare Dionio, 33, and Freddie Alvarez Turalba, 47 – were unhurt.
The gunmen fled towards the center of Bangued.
Forensic investigators recovered seven cartridges and a bullet fired from a .45-pistol. SFM/rga
Bangued, Abra (Google maps)