Councilman shot dead in Santiago

SANTIAGO, Isabela -- Drug surrenderee and former village councilman Fredy del Rosario was having a massage in front of his store here in Barangay Calao East, Santiago, Isabela when an unidentified man shot him in the head Monday.

Senior Superintendent Percival Rumbaoa, Santiago police chief, said Del Rosario was an aide of Johnny de Leon, a suspected drug lord in Cagayan Valley, who died in a shootout with police in Quezon City also on July 16.