As of yesterday, four more murders related to the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections were reported.
Three of the victims, two of them running for barangay councilor, were shot dead on Monday night in Cotabato City while two others were hurt. The fourth victim, who was running for village captain, was killed in an ambush in Davao de Oro.
In Davao de Oro, barangay councilman Alvin Garcia and a woman were on a motorcycle in Montevista town on Monday morning when two persons on another motorcycle pulled up. The back rider fatally shot Garcia in the head and wounded the woman. Garcia, 31, was running for barangay captain. While probers are eyeing a personal grudge as the motive, the attack showed the weakness of the election gun ban.
The attacks again make people wonder what’s at stake in the BSKE that would drive people to commit murder to eliminate the competition. Since the start of the election period on Aug. 28, authorities have recorded 22 election-related violent incidents, including the murder of candidates in Pangasinan, Masbate and Maguindanao.
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