Tawi-Tawi vice mayor killed, the latest in string of attacks on LGU execs
MANILA, Philippines — Another local government unit executive was gunned down this time in Mindanao on Wednesday, the latest in a string of attacks on local officials.
Sapa-Sapa, Tawi-Tawi Vice Mayor Al Rashid Mohammad Alih was shot dead by two motorcycle-riding men as he was leaving a mall in Zamboanga City.
According to a report by DZMM radio, the vice mayor was shot twice in the chest in Governor Alvarez, Zamboanga City at past 5 this afternoon.
Alih is the second vice mayor to be killed in the past five days.
On Saturday, Vice Mayor Alex Lubigan, 44, of Trece Martires City, Cavite, and his aide were killed by an unidentified gunman while on their way home along the Trece Martires-Indang road in Luciano village.
Lubigan suffered multiple gunshot wounds and died on the scene. His aide meanwhile died in the hospital where he was rushed.
Just last week, two mayors from two provinces were killed in two separate attacks in just a span of more than 24 hours.
On July 2, Tanauan City Mayor Antonio Halili was gunned down during flag-raising rites at the city hall's parking lot.
Halili became controversial in 2016 after he made drug suspects walk through his city's streets wearing shirts or cardboards which read that they should not be emulated because they were drug peddlers.
The following day, General Tinio, Nueva Ecija Mayor Ferdinand Bote, 57, was killed in a street attack just as he was leaving a government office compound.
Despite this uptick in attacks on local officials, the government said there is no climate of violence and impunity prevailing in the country.
Multiple reports say General Tinio, Nueva Ecija Mayor Ferdinand Bote was gunned down on Tuesday afternoon.
Bote was reportedly shot in front of the city hospital of Cabanatuan City.
His death came a day after Tanauan Mayor Antonio Halili's murder.
Quezon City Police District reports that a barangay captain was killed in the city on Wednesday morning. The official was brought to the Far Eastern University Hospital.
Former Parang, Maguindanao Mayor Talib Abo Sr., who was named as a "narco-politician" by President Rodrigo Duterte, was killed in an anti-illegal drug operation Friday dawn, reports say.
His brother was also killed in a separate police operation against illegal narcotics the same day.
Police in Zamboanga City have designated a task group to speed up the investigation into the killing of Sapa-sapa, Tawi-Tawi Vice Mayor Al-rasid Mohammad Lipae Ali on Wednesday afternoon.
Senior Superintendent Alan Nazarro, acting director of the Zamboanga City Police Office, says city police will coordinate with their counterparts in Tawi-Tawi.
Ali was shot on Gov. Alvarez Avenue around 5:20 p.m. on Wednesday.
Police have already retrieved CCTV footage from the area.
Vice Mayor Alrashid Mohammad Alih of Sapa-Sapa town in Tawi-Tawi was shot dead by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Zamboanga City, several reports say.
Multiple reports say the suspect in the killing of General Tino, Nueva Ecija Mayor Ferdinand Bote has been arrested.
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