Five persons, including a city councilor and a former town mayor, were separately gunned down overnight in Canlaon City and the towns of Ayungon and Siaton. Armed men broke into the house of Canlaon City councilor Ramon Jalandoni before shooting him at 12:14 a.m. on Saturday. Also killed was Ernesto Posadas, village chief of Panubigan in Canlaon City. The Philippine National Police in Negros Oriental earlier reported that gunmen in several of the attacks identified themselves as members of the New People’s Army (NPA). The killings are Duterte’s cowardly retaliation for the losses suffered by his police forces last July 14 in Ayungon town in Negros Oriental,” according to the CPP statement.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 27, 2019 03:33 UTC