COTABATO CITY -- Police have launched manhunt against two men on motorbike who tried, but failed, to assassinate a former Maguindanao town councilor Wednesday afternoon, police said.
Chief Inspector Achmad Alibonga, police chief of Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao, said Thursday Hadji Peda Diocolano Binangon, 61, a resident of Cotabato City, was on board a family-owned vehicle heading toward Cotabato City when ambushed by two men on separate motorbike at around 2 p.m.
The incident happened along a sharp curve road at sitio Tenorio, Barangay Awang, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao, about a kilometer from the Army’s 6th Infantry Division headquarters.
Binangon is president of Association of Barangay Captain of South Upi, Maguindanao and sits as ex-officio member of the town council.
Alibonga said Binangon sustained bullet injuries on his lower torso and is now recuperating at a government hospital here.
“We are not sure of the motive..we are still investigating,” Alibonga said, adding that Binangon has no threat to his life as per statement from his wife.
Apparently, the suspects tailed the victim from South Upi to Cotabato City.
Alibonga said investigators are still determining the identities of the gunmen.(PNA)
