(UPDATED) Malabon City 2nd District Councilor Merlin 'Tiger' Mañalac is gunned down in front of his home
MALABON COUNCILOR. Malabon City 2nd District Councilor Merlin 'Tiger' Mañalac. Photo from the Facebook page of Councilor Tiger Mañalac
Malabon city councilor was shot dead on Saturday afternoon, January 23, reports said.
Malabon City 2nd District Councilor Merlin "Tiger" Mañalac was gunned down in front of his home in Barangay Tinajeros at 3:50 pm on Saturday, radio dzMM reported.
Police said the suspects sped away on a motorcycle. Mañalac was pronounced dead on arrival at the MCU hospital in Caloocan City.
Mañalac, the son of the late Malabon councilor and police colonel Alfonso "Boyong" Mañalac, was running for re-election in May.
Malabon Mayor Antolin Oreta III offered a P200,000-reward for information that could lead to the arrest of the suspects.
Leftist group Partisano-Armadong Operatiba ng Partido Marxista-Leninista ng Pilipinas claimed responsibility for the attack. Leaflets of its statement were found in the crime scene.
The group said this was "retribution" for the murder of Peter Villasenor, a former member of the New People's Army, in 2010, among other reasons.
The group had also claimed responsibility for killing a barangay captain in Manila in 2011, and the ambush try on the teenage son of Robert Esquivel, then Metropolitan Manila Development Authority sidewalk clearing operations group chief, in 2009.
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The Partisano-Armadong Operatiba ng Partido Marxista-Leninista ng Pilipinas (Armed Partisan Operatives of the Marxist-Leninist Party of the Philippines) is an extremely small urban-based breakaway element of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
ReplyDeleteThe group apparently claims the mantle of the now defunct urban terrorist organization the Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB). Members of this partisan group view those members of the ABB who aligned themselves with the Revolutionary Proletarian Army (RPA) to form the RPA/ABB as fake. The PMLP partisans see themselves as the true successors to the legacy of the ABB.
Over the last 5-6 years there have only a handful of violent incidents attributed by the media to the activities of the Partisano-Armadong Operatiba ng Partido Marxista-Leninista ng Pilipinas.