Retired gov鈥檛 worker slain in Cotabato province gun attack
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COTABATO CITY — A retired government worker of the National Grains Authority (now the National Food Authority) was killed in an ambush around 8 a.m. Sunday in Midsayap town, Cotabato province.
Sindatu Sangid Dilangalen, 76, a resident of Barangay Bual Norte in Midsayap town, a relative of the late Maguindanao House Rep. Didagen Dilangalen, just brought his wife to the Midsayap town proper on board a pickup vehicle.
He was heading home driving the same pickup when ambushed by two gunmen on a motorbike along the road in the town’s Zone 7, Barangay Poblacion 7, said Lieutenant Colonel Arniel Melocotones, Midsayap municipal police station chief.
Police responders rushed the victim to a hospital, but he died.
Crime scene investigators found empty shells for caliber .45 pistol at the ambush site.
Dilangalen reportedly lost control of his vehicle and fell off a rice field after being shot repeatedly by the suspects, who fled the crime scene.
Ernesto Gelay Jr., chair of Barangay Poblacion 7, said villagers heard several gunshots and saw the vehicle veering towards the rice paddies from the concrete barangay road.
Police are still investigating the motive of the attack, which came amid the implementation of the election gun ban in the country.
