Barangay chairman killed in Cebu ambush

Motorcycle-riding gunmen shot to death a barangay chairman in Liloan town in the province of Cebu on Thursday evening.

RGMA's Randy Gorion reported on Super Radyo dzBB early Friday morning that the shooting incident happened at 7:55 pm while the victim and his partner were on their way home to Barangay San Vicente in Liloan.

Barangay chairman sa isang bayan sa Cebu, patay matapos tambangan. | via Randy Gorion, RGMA Cebu pic.twitter.com/5PcUmQztST

— DZBB Super Radyo (@dzbb) November 24, 2017

The report identified the victim Felicisimo Rupinta, who succumbed to two bullet wounds in his head.

His live-in partner, who was wounded in the arm during the ambush, said that the attackers—riding tandem on a motorbike—suddenly pulled shoulder to shoulder with their pick-up and opened fire.

Rupinta died later at a hospital, the report added. 

Police are looking at illegal drugs or work-related grudge as possible motives for the crime, citing information that the victim had been suspended for not supporting the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency's anti-narcotic drive. —LBG, GMA News