The number of election-related violent incidents (ERVIs)
recorded by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has climbed to 25 as of
Monday.
This was disclosed by AFP public affairs office chief Col.
Noel Detoyato in a statement Tuesday.
Included in the ERVIs tally was the incident involving two
troopers of the 9th Infantry Division who were ambushed and wounded while
deployed for Monday's election duty in Matnog, Sorsogon.
The incident took place around 3:35 p.m., Detoyato said.
Government troops were aboard one KM-450 truck which was
escorted by one V-150 "Commando" armored personnel carrier when mined
and fired upon by 10 New People's Army (NPA) rebels.
The rebels retreated after a four-minute firefight.
The wounded were identified as 2nd Lt. Ariel P. Cayton and
Sgt. Jovintino C. Cerafica and was quickly taken to the Irosin Municipal
Hospital
Detoyato said military is already conducting pursuit
operations to hunt down the perpetrators.
Meanwhile, one civilian was killed while another was wounded
in separate shooting incidents in Maguindanao and Zamboanga Sibugay.
The first shooting incident took place at Barangay Pageda,
Talitay, Maguindanao at 8:34 p.m. Sunday when a still unidentified gunman shot
and killed 29-year-old certain Bayan Buisan.
In the second incident, 63-year-old Serafin Crisostomo was
shot and wounded on May 8 when four motorcycle-riding suspects unidentified
armed men strafed a waiting shed near the home of Barangay Sta. Maria chair
Amenardo S. Malinao in Alicia town, Zamboanga Sibugay.
Crisostomo and Malinao along with five others were talking
in a waiting shed when four men aboard two motorcycles, appeared out of nowhere
and fired on the group, hitting the former.
Troopers from the 44th Infantry Battalion quickly assisted
their Alicia police counterparts.
On Monday, the AFP recorded 22 ERVIs which translated to 10
deaths and three wounded with most of the incident being recorded in the
Western Mindanao Command area-of-responsibility.
This is from midnight to 2:00 p.m. Monday.
With these figures, the number of dead and wounded during
the day before and during the May 9 polls has now climbed to 11 and six,
respectively.
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