PIDIGAN, Abra -- Another village leader, this
time, in this town was gunned down Tuesday morning after attending a voters'
education meeting.
Police said barangay
chairman Arnulfo Madriaga, 54, of barangay San Diego, Pidigan town came
from a Commission on Elections-led “Voters Education” meeting at the Pidigan
Elementary School when waylaid by still unidentified gunmen at around 11:15 Tuesday
morning.
Police said the
village leader together with a barangay tanod Alfredo Barroga Blando, 27, were
heading home aboard a motorcycle when assassins also on board another
motorcycle without plate number tailed them and opened fire along barangay
Pangtod, also in Pidigan.
The village leader
sustained several bullet wounds from a Cal. 45 gun instantly killing him.
Probers said they
found 12 fired cartridge cases of caliber .45 and one fired bullet of the
same caliber where the village leader was waylaid.
Abra police director
Sr. Supt. Benjamin Lusad said they have yet to determine the motive and
identity of the assailant.
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