TACLOBAN CITY—Mayor Ronald Aquino of Calbayog City, Samar province was killed in a clash with anti-narcotics policemen on Monday (March 8).
This was the initial report received by the Eastern Visayas police office on the daylight gunfight that killed the mayor and five other people, including a civilian who was caught in the crossfire.
Lt. Col. Maria Bella Rentuaya, regional police information officer, said the report from the Calbayog police said what happened was not an ambush as earlier reported but an exchange of fire between the mayor’s group and members of the Police Drug Enforcement Unit (PDEU) who were aboard two separate vehicles.
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