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03 July 2018 09:10:18
A mayor of the Philippine city known to have paraded drug suspects in public, but also alleged to have drug links, was killed by a sniper in front of a shameless attack. Hundreds of horrified employees and village leaders at a flag-raising ceremony
Key Points:
- The shot was reportedly shot from a grbady hill
- The shooter was not arrested
- Tanauan is a small town Mayor Antonio Halili of Tanauan City, Batangas Province, south of Manila, was shot dead by one soldier and about 300 employees and newly elected village chiefs sang the national anthem in a parking lot outside the town hall
. The policeman escaped, police and witnesses said, "I did not know that it was shooting until people started screaming, somebody was shooting, someone was shooting in all directions and I saw my mayor sprawled on the ground, "said the village chief, Rico Alcazar, who was in the crowd behind Mr. Halili, 72 years old
"Everyone was shocked and it took some time before some people carried the mayor and took him in a car." Halili's bodyguards opened fire on a grbady hill where the shot was fired, adds Alcazar.
A video of Mr. Alcazar shows some men standing around Mr. Halili as gunshots are heard People shout, scream, run and hide during the fray.
A man shouts: "The mayor is dead, the mayor has been shot down" and another desperately asks for a car to take away Mr. Halili at the hospital, 19659010] "They saw no one approaching him," said the director general of the National Police, Oscar Albayalde, at a press conference at Manila, adding that an investigation was underway. Assumption or allegation was that it could have been a sniper shot. "
The officer said that the bullet hit a cell phone in Mr. Halili's coat pocket, and that the police said:
An investigator crosses a grbady area with a police band near him 19659021] Photo:
An investigator walks along the area where the sniper would have taken a stand.
The mayor's "shame marches"
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte expressed suspicion in a speech that the murder was linked to illegal drugs.
Two years ago, the suspects were shown in public in Tanauan, a small town about 70 kilometers south of Manila, in a campaign called "shame walks".
The suspects were forced to carry cardboard signs that said: "
The officials, however, also linked Mr. Halili to illegal drugs and removed his control over the city's police.
Mr. Halili vigorously denied the allegation stated at the time that he would resign and be willing to be publicly portrayed as a drug suspect if the authorities could provide evidence to him. 39, support of the allegation.
Tanauan information agent Gerardo Laresma said that Mr. Halili had received death threats. "[unknown] Unknown people"
Mr. Halili's unusual campaign attracted attention at a time increasingly alarmed by the growing number of people suspected of drugs under Mr. Duterte.
Mr. Duterte came to power in 2016, more than 4,200 suspects were killed in clashes with police, alarming human rights groups, Western governments and human rights watchdogs. man
AP
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