BACNOTAN, La Union – A 70-year-old councilor
of this town was killed in an ambush while on his way home Tuesday night,
police said.
The victim,
Onofre Almojuela, who was serving his third and last term as councilor,
sustained several gunshot wounds in his back, killing him on the spot.
Initial investigation
showed Almojuela, also a former barangay chairman, was driving a L-300 van when
the assailants fired at him as he was crossing the road going to his house in
Barangay Mabanengneng 2nd at around 9 p.m. Tuesday.
The gunmen fled on a
motorcycle.
Police recovered 11
empty shells from an unknown firearm in the crime scene.
Investigators were
still determining if the killing had something to do with politics or personal
grudge.
Almojuela’s wife,
Revelina, chairwoman of Barangay Mabanengbeng 1st, said she was not aware of
any disagreements her husband had with anybody.
Bacnotan Mayor
Ma.MindaFontanilla condemned the killing and asked the Philippine National Police
to fully investigate it.
“We are clueless (on
Almojuela’s killing). I asked the police to take all the names and licenses of
motorcycle riders passing by in our town, check where they are going, whoever
and whatever they are,” Fontanilla said.
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