ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / May 30, 2012) – Unidentified gunman shot dead a policeman in a daring attack Wednesday in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines.
The victim, Ashri Nuh Naruddin, was inside a passenger jeep when he was shot at least 3 times in the head, police said.
The jeep driver said he was slowing down to pick up passengers along Don Alfaro Street in the village of Tetuan when he heard three shots and saw three men speeding away on a motorcycle.
“There were three men riding on a single motorcycle and sped away after the shooting and the man in the jeep just slumped dead, bloodied from wounds in the head,” the driver said.
The driver did not say how many passengers in the jeep, but there were no reports of civilian casualties.
A police investigator said Naruddin, who was identified through his police ID, was assigned in Basilan, one of five provinces under the Muslim autonomous region.
The motive of the attack is still unknown or whether it was connected to clan war or family feud, or had something to do with the policeman’s job, but gun attacks and extrajudicial killings are not uncommon in Zamboanga City.
Hired killers are actively operating in Zamboanga and had been largely blamed to numerous attacks in the past. (Mindanao Examiner)
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