COTABATO CITY -- A senior state auditor of the Commission on Audit in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (COA-BARMM) was killed in a drive-by shooting incident here Friday.
Maj. Rustom Pastolero, Police Station 2 chief, identified the victim as Guiara Bagundang Akmad, 57, COA-BARMM’s supervising auditor assigned in the
province of Maguindanao.
Pastolero said Akmad was with her husband in the vehicle when shot by one of two men riding in tandem in a motorcycle at about noon Friday while they were exiting from the Citymall car park along Avelina Street, Barangay Rosary Heights 7 here.
Akmad, who sustained multiple gunshot wounds, was rushed to the Cotabato Regional and Medical Center but was declared dead on arrival.
The victim’s husband, who was driving the car, was unhurt, Pastolero said, adding that the authorities were trying to determine the motive and the identities of the perpetrators as of posting time. (PNA)
