Candidate for councilor slain in Ilocos

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Date: 29 January 2010
Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/240922/candidate-councilor-slain-ilocos

By FREDDIE G. LAZARO
January 29, 2010, 5:30pm

CAMP PRESIDENT QUIRINO, Bantay, Ilocos Sur — An independent candidate for councilor in the May 10, 2010 elections was killed in a broad daylight by two unidentified motor-riding suspects in front of his residence in Barangay San Vicente, Magsingal, Ilocos Sur, Thursday, afternoon.

The shooting happened 22 days after the ambush-slaying of another candidate for councilor in Sta. Maria town.
Senior Superintendent Eduardo Dopale, Ilocos Sur police director, said Cecilio Tolentino, 65, an independent candidate for councilor in Magsingal, was having a conversation with his neighbor when the suspects arrived and shot him several times in front of his residence in Barangay San Vicente, Magsingal, at 4:40 p.m. Thursday.

The victim, a retired provincial manager of the National Food Authority (NFA), suffered several bullet wounds in the abdomen.