TEHRAN, July 03 - Philippine police officials said another mayor was shot and killed by an unidentified man in a road attack a day after a city mayor was gunned down in brazen back-to-back killings that prompted an opposition senator to call the country the "murder capital of Asia."
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Officials say Mayor Ferdinand Bote of northern General Tinio town was leaving a government compound on board an SUV in northern Nueva Ecija province Tuesday when a motorcycle-riding man shot him repeatedly with a pistol. The gunman escaped.
Mayor Antonio Halili was shot and killed Monday while singing the national anthem with hundreds of horrified employees in a flag-raising ceremony in his city of Tanauan south of Manila.
Opposition Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV blamed the killings on a "culture of violence" under President Rodrigo Duterte.
Source: AP
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