| Injured | Killed |
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| 1 | 1 |
Date: 13 July 2010
Source: Inquirer-Central Luzon
Barangay chair gunned down
A VILLAGE official out on bail on charges of illegal seizure of chicks and illegal possession of firearms and explosives was shot and killed by a lone man in Samal town on Friday night, police said.
Arnold Pantig, 41, chair of Barangay Tagumpay in Orani town, came from a cockfight and was resting in front of a house in Rich Town subdivision in Samal when a man armed with a .45-cal. pistol approached and shot him at about 11 p.m. The gunman fled on a motorcycle driven by another man, reports said.
A woman, identified as Vivian Estacio, was wounded in the attack.
Superintendent Arnold Gunnacao, police provincial director, said Pantig had pending criminal cases at the regional trial court in Dinalupihan town.
Greg Refraccion, Inquirer Central Luzon