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Date: 16 November 2010
Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20101116-303594/Tuguegarao-mayor-shot-wounded-in-murder-try

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Philippines—Mayor Delfin Ting was taken by a chartered plane to an undisclosed hospital in Metro Manila on Tuesday morning after he was shot and wounded by a lone gunman outside the family-owned Delfino Hotel here on Monday night.

Ting, 72, suffered a bullet wound in the cheek after he was shot while he was talking with two security aides in front of the hotel on Bonifacio Street at 6:15 p.m. The gunman fled aboard a motorcycle driven by another man.

Cagayan Rep. Randolph Ting said his father, who was first taken to Saint Paul Hospital here, was in stable condition. “He can speak now although [a bullet fragment] remained embedded in his right cheek,” Rep. Ting told the Inquirer by telephone on Tuesday morning.

He said the family was also studying messages and information posted on the mayor’s Facebook account to look for possible leads on the people behind the attack.

The younger Ting said his father’s political opponents have been using false identities to curse, criticize and threaten his father.

“We would be digging deeper into these [messages] on Facebook and [gather] other electronic evidence,” he said.

Ting said his father has been known as a strict leader. He believed his father’s political rivals could have planned the attack.

Another son, Larry Ting, president of the Association of Barangay Captains in the city, said people who may have been hurt by his father’s policies and brash style of leadership could be behind the assassination attempt.

The Ting children, however, did not name the people whom they suspect to be behind the attack.

Senior Supt. Mao Aplasca, Cagayan police director, said their reports showed that the mayor had received death threats through phone calls and text messages before he was attacked on Monday.

Aplasca said the gunman, who was armed with a .22 cal. gun, could have used a silencer as Ting’s security aides did not hear a gunshot.