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The Philippine National Police promises to work with the National Bureau of Investigation in looking into the killing of Calbayog City Mayor Ronald Aquino in Samar, but maintains that it was the slain official s group which fired the first shot during the incident.
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NBI Deputy Director Ferdinand M. Lavin said Justice Secretary Menardo I. Guevarra has issued the order for the probe.
The investigation will be augmented by the a forensics team from the NBI main office in Manila, Lavin said.
The shooting incident happened along Laboyao Bridge in Barangay Lonoy in Calbayog City at about 5:30 p.m. last Monday, March 8.
Last Tuesday, March 9, Guevarra issued Department Order No. 057 which ordered the NBI “to conduct an investigation on the shooting incident… and, if evidence warrants, to file the appropriate charges against all persons involved and found responsible for any unlawful act in connection therewith.”
PNP to work with NBI in probe on Calbayog mayor s slay, maintains Aquino s group fired first shot
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 10) The Philippine National Police promised to work with the National Bureau of Investigation in looking into the killing of Calbayog City Mayor Ronald Aquino in Samar, but maintained that it was the slain official s group which fired the first shot during the incident.
Citing the Police Regional Office 8, PNP Chief Gen. Debold Sinas it was Aquino s team which initiated the gunfight with a vehicle carrying authorities from the Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group and Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit. Killed in the incident were the mayor, his driver, his police security escort, and at least two other police officers in the group that clashed with Aquino s men.
Catholic bishop condemns killing of Filipino politician
Bishop Abarquez calls for an investigation into the events that led to the death of Calbayog s mayor
Bishop Isabelo Abarquez says violence is not tolerated in any Catholic society. (Photo: UCA News)
A Catholic bishop has denounced the killing of a Philippine mayor and two of his aides by anti-narcotics police in Samar province.
Ronald Aquino, mayor of Calbayog City, was in a vehicle with his bodyguards when two vehicles carrying police officers approached them on a bridge on March 8.
“The first shots came from the vehicle where mayor Aquino was on board … [he and his bodyguards] were thinking that the vehicles behind them were tailing them,” said police information officer Maria Bella Rentuaya on national television.