COTABATO CITY--Police are tracking down gunmen onboard a sports utility vehicle (SUV) who killed a village official of Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao on Tuesday, July 28.
Major Alexander Butuan, town police chief, identified the slain village official as Mahdi Simpal, the secretary of Barangay Malingao.
Butuan said the victim had just boarded his vehicle after buying medicine from a local pharmacy situated along the highway around 8 a.m. when fired upon by two gunmen onboard a black SUV without plate number.
“The victim died on the spot due to multiple gunshot wounds,” the police official said.
Witnesses said they saw the attackers’ vehicle speeding off southwards of the town. A police manhunt is ongoing, Butuan said.
Initial
investigation indicates “personal grudge” as a possible motive behind the
shooting.
Roadblocks
were immediately set up on all strategic entry and exit points of Shariff Aguak
following the incident, the police official said. (NOEL PUNZALAN, PNA,
MINDANAO EXPOSE')
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