Surigao prosecutor hurt in gun attack

BUTUAN CITY, Philippines – A prosecutor was critically wounded in a gun attack in Surigao del Norte yesterday.

Surigao City prosecutor Manuel Tesiorna was initially taken to a private hospital in Surigao City for treatment  then airlifted to the Perpetual Succor Hospital in Cebu City.

A police report said Tesiorna was in front of his house in Barangay Canlanipa when motorcycle-riding men opened fire.

The gun attack came less than a week after Victor Canoy, a former Surigao del Norte regional trial court (RTC) judge, was shot dead also by unidentified motorcycle-riding men.

In September, Bayugan RTC Judge Hector Salise and his police aide were wounded in a gun attack on their way to work in this city.

Ingemar Macarine, board member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines-Surigao del Norte chapter, condemned the attacks.

“We call on our President to solve senseless killings and end the culture of impunity,” Macarine said in a text message to The STAR.