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Vice mayor’s driver also killed; another seriously injured (Eagle News)–The vice mayor of Trece Martires, Cavite was shot dead on Saturday, July 6. The police said Alex Lubigan was on board a black Toyota Hilux, with conduction sticker Y0477, on Trece-Indang Road in Barangay Luciano when a black Montero fired at it at 3:15 p.m. Lubigan was killed on the spot. His driver Romulo Guillemer was seriously injured and was rushed to the General Emilio […]
(Eagle News) — General Tinio, Nueva Ecija Vice Mayor Melvin Pascual has been sworn in as the municipality’s new mayor. Pascual officially took over the post of slain Mayor Ferdinand Bote on Wednesday morning, July 4. Judge Celso Baguio of Gapan Regional Trial Court Branch 34 administered his oath-taking. Anna Rouselle Busalpa, the number one councilor, meanwhile, succeeded Pascual’s post as vice mayor. Bote died after he was shot as he was leaving the National […]
(Eagle News) — Labintatlong miyembro ng Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) ang napatay sa sagupaan sa Philippine Army sa Maguindanao nitong Miyerkules, ika-4 ng Hulyo. Ayon sa AFP, anim ang nasugatan sa panig ng 40th Infantry Batallion ng Philippine Army sa engkuwentro na tumagal ng mahigit sa isang oras. Umatras ang mga terorista matapos silang bombahin ng militar gamit ang 105-millimeter howitzers cannon at dalawang helicopter gunship ng Philippine Air Force (PAF). Narekober ng militar sa […]
(Eagle News)–The family of Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili suspects the government had a hand in his murder, Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Thursday, July 5. According to Lacson, who spoke to the mayor’s kin on Wednesday, family members came to the conclusion after they supposedly discovered a surveillance was conducted on them by vehicles using “manufactured plates.” Lacson, a former chief of the Philippine National Police, admitted that police made use of such plates […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Philippine National Police chief Director General Oscar Albayalde on Thursday, July 5, said Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili was involved in a land dispute with a former general before he was killed. “Medyo matagal tagal na rin. I just don’t know kung taon na yan pero it’s going on actually before the incident. Ibig sabihin nangyari na long before na nangyari itong shooting,” Albayalde said. Albayalde, however, could not […]
(Eagle News) — The police on Thursday, June 5, said it was possible the man who shot and killed Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili was with a companion when he committed the crime. In a press conference after the reenactment of the killing, Chief Supt. Edward Carranza, director of the Philippine National Police Region 4-A, made the deduction after finding that there was a “distortion” in the “natural growth of the grass” where police believe the […]
(Eagle News) — The task force that is investigating the killing of Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili held a reenactment of the same on Thursday, July 5. The reenactment was done around the same time Halili was purported to have been killed, during the city’s flag-raising ceremony on Monday, July 2. Authorities said the reenactment was to determine where the bullet that killed Halili came from and its trajectory that will help in the investigation. […]
(Eagle News) — Probers say there are three possible motives behind the killing of Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili, Eduardo Año, officer in charge of the Department of the Interior and Local Government said on Wednesday, July 4. In a statement, Año said that based on the report of the special investigation task force, these three possible motives were “politics, the shame campaign that the mayor waged in his city, and his alleged involvement in illegal drugs.” “Sa […]
(Eagle News) — The mayor of a town in Nueva Ecija died in an ambush on Tuesday, July 3. A police report said General Tinio Mayor Ferdinand Bote was aboard a Toyota Fortuner, with plate number AAB-2020, when he was shot several times by a gunman at 4:50 p.m. Footage from a closed-circuit camera in the National Irrigation Authority showed the gunman appearing at the right side of the Fortuner as it was exiting the […]
(Eagle News) — Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año has instructed the police to prioritize solving the killing of Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili on Monday, July 2. Año said he specifically directed the Calabarzon police director, Chief Supt. Edward Carranza, to do the same. “Maraming lumulutang na anggulo kaya trabaho ng Special Investigation Task Force na binuo ni P/Chief Supt.Carranza na pag-aralan at imbestigahan ang mga ito para agad na […]
(Eagle News) — Detained Senator Leila de Lima on Tuesday, July 3, lashed out at President Rodrigo Duterte anew, saying it was he who “most certainly murdered with words” Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili. “Yesterday, a mayor was shot in broad daylight during a morning flag ceremony. Before the body even turns cold, he proclaims in a speech that the mayor who was shot dead was a suspected drug lord and saw it coming,” De […]
(Eagle News)–The bullet that hit Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili disintegrated upon impact, the Philippine National Police said on Tuesday, July 3. In an interview over GMA7’s Unang Balita, Chief Supt. Edward Carranza, Calabarzon director, said, however, that police were trying to determine the gun used to kill the mayor through an analysis of the bullet jacket recovered from him. The police also found a bullet shell in the area. According to Carranza, so far, […]
