The Cebu Police Provincial Office directs cops in nearby towns to set up roadblocks to prevent the assailants from escaping.
CEBU, Philippines – Riding-in-tandem assailants shot dead Manguiao Barangay Captain Mario Tundag and his wife, Edna, in Asturias town on Tuesday, March 14.
The shooting occurred as the couple passed the Mayor Fabian Aguanta Asturias Central School along the national highway in Barangay Poblacion. In a statement, Cebu Congressman Pablo John Garcia urged the police to conduct a swift and thorough investigation into the Asturias town killing. In August 2017, at the height of then-president Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, Cebu-based news outfits reported the arrest of Tundag and a councilman of Barangay Sta. Rita for illegal possession of guns, including a KG9 submachine gun and an Instagram pistol, ammunition.
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