Polomolok Mayor Bernie Palencia’s executive secretary, Rhyolite Balili, survives the attack on Friday, March 17, which the local chief executive interpreted as a message of death for him.
GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines – A mayor in South Cotabato province has called for tightened police security as he feared that he was being targeted for assassination after a close aide of his was shot near the town hall by still unidentified gunmen.
He said his security escorts had observed two persons, apparently posing as peanut vendors, who entered an event at the town’s gymnasium taking a video of him earlier. He announced that the local government was offering a half-a-million pesos bounty for information leading to the identification of Balili’s attackers.
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