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Basilan mayor killed, another mayor wounded in Zamboanga City shooting


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Police personnel secure the scene where Al-Barka Mayor Darusalam Lajid and a driver-escort were killed in an attack on December 6, 2021. The town mayor of Akbar town, Alih Salih, was also wounded in the shooting at Barangay Baliwsan, Zamboanga City.

The STAR / Roel Pareño

 

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Update 2;  4:14 p.m.) — Darusallam Lajid, mayor of Al-Barka in Basilan, was killed in a gun attack in Zamboanga City on Monday morning that also left Akbar Mayor Alih Sali injured. 

 

Sali's driver Barad Nuruddin was also killed in the attack.

 

In an initial statement Monday, the Zamboanga City Police Office said the two mayors were attacked by four men on motorcycles in a seaside village in Barangay Baliwasan in Zamboanga City. The mayors had just arrived from Basilan on a small boat.

 

Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/nation/2021/12/06/2146089/basilan-mayor-killed-another-mayor-wounded-zamboanga-city-shooting

 

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