PNP Headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City. (Photo from the PNP Facebook page)
MANILA, Philippines 鈥� Four newly-elected officials were killed over a week after the Oct. 30 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Col. Jean Fajardo, spokesperson of the (PNP) said in a press briefing on Wednesday.
The PNP recorded a total of 77 BSKE-related violent incidents, six of which involved newly proclaimed barangay officials,
鈥淎s to the status of the victims, four are dead and two are injured,鈥� Fajardo said.
Fajardo added that the six cases consisted of four shooting incidents and one each of stabbing and hacking.
The four who were killed were a barangay councilor in Pasay City,聽 a barangay captain in the Davao Region, and two barangay councilors the Soccsksargen Region.
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Meanwhile, 10 barangay officials were wounded in the Calabarzon Region and Northern Mindanao.
Citing the Nov. 8 data of the PNP, Fajardo reported that most of the validated election-related incidents were recorded in the聽 following areas:
- Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao: 39
- Northern Mindanao (Region 10): 13
- Cordillera Administrative Region: 5
- Eastern Visayas (Region 8): 5
- Bicol Region (Region 5): 4
- Central Visayas (Region 7): 2
- Metro Manila: 1
- Calabarzon (Region 4A): 1
- Mimamropa (Region 4B): 1
- Western Visayas (Region 6): 1
- Zamboanga Peninsula (Region 9): 1
- Soccsksargen (Region 12): 1
Meanwhile, 44 remain on the list of suspected election-related violent incidents, while other 176 were non-poll-related.