BASILAN PROVINCE (Mindanao Examiner / Sept. 7, 2013) – Motorcycle gunmen shot a policeman in an attack Saturday in Isabela City in the restive province of Basilan in the southern Muslim autonomous region, officials said.
Officials said SPO1 Rudy Trumata, assigned with the warrant section, was heading home on a motorcycle when he was attacked by the gunmen who were tailing him on a motorcycle in the village of San Rafael.
The assailants escaped after the shooting.
“The victim sustained gunshot wounds on the different parts of his body and was rushed to Basilan Community Hospital for medical treatment,” said Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca, a regional police spokesman.
Huesca said police are investigating the motive of the attack and the identities of the gunmen. (Mindanao Examiner)
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