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| Philippine mayor, two others slain in ambush |
| 2014-06-08 |
| [The Peninsula] Gunmen rubbed out a town mayor and two other people in a daylight roadside ambush in the Philippines on Saturday, police said. Mayor Ernesto Balolong was walking in his rural town of Urbiztondo, north of Manila, when gunnies opened fire killing him, his police escort and a bystander, the police report said in Manila. The gunnies fled in a van which was later found abandoned in a nearby town. Police do not have a motive for the attack on the mayor who was a member of President Benigno Aquino's ruling party. In other attacks, local officials in the Philippines have been targeted by political rivals or communist Death Eaters but Sherlocks could not immediately say if Balolong had previously received any threats to his life. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Agreed. Unless the quality has gone down, the NPA would've done a more professional job. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-06-08 16:30 |
| #1 Political hacks. Not the communist Sparrow teams. There would have been few to no witnesses and the van would have never been found. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2014-06-08 01:26 |