Police and military authorities are now hunting down two men who shot dead Tuesday a former village councilor along a highway in
Supt. Bernard Tayong, speaking for the North
Cotabato police office, said manhunt had been launched jointly by
the Arakan police and members of the 57th Infantry Battalion of the 6th
Infantry Division.
Tayong said two men riding tandem on a motorbike tailed
former village councilor Joel Gulmatico, 58, of Barangay Naje, Arakan, North Cotabato on board his motorbike.
Upon reaching the national highway, the two suspects armed
with cal. 45 pistol overtook Gulmatico's motorcycle and shot him in the head
and body.
Responding soldiers and village people rushed the victim to
a hospital in Arakan town but he was declared dead on arrival.
Gulmatico, 58, is also chairman of the Arakan Peasant
Progressive Organization (APPO), a farmers' organization.
He ran for the village chair of Naje in 2013 after he
completed his three term as "barangay kagawad" but lost.
Farmers have appealed to authorities to bring the
perpetrators before the bar of justice. No one has claimed responsibility for
the killing of Gulmatico who was reported to have planned to run again as
village chair in next year's balloting.
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