Chief Supt. Edward Carranza, chief of the Calabarzon police, was quoted in a television report as saying that politics was the motive for the slaying of Lubigan, adding that the vice mayor was not on a government narco list.
Archiv: Ferdinand Bote
Another mayor killed in ambush
A day after Tanauan Mayor Antonio Halili was felled by a sniper’s bullet in Batangas, another mayor was slain — Ferdinand Bote of General Tinio town in Nueva Ecija.
A report from the Nueva Ecija Provincial Police Office said Bote was killed in Cabanatuan City at 4:50 p.m. by unidentified men.