COTABATO CITY, Philippines - Unidentified gunmen have killed a Filipino-Chinese businessman who was running for the city council in Cotabato City where 57 people were massacred in an election-related incident last November, a radio report said yesterday.
Source: Gulfnews
- Joseph Kwan Datuwata, 42, and his two children were aboard a pick-up truck as they left their home at Rosary Heights 10 when two gunmen with .45-calibre pistols fired at them at 7am yesterday, Senior Inspector Wally Kasuyo said in the report.
- Datuwata shot back and chased his attackers down the street, wounding one, but they fled in a getaway vehicle, said Kasuyo, adding that no one had yet been arrested for the murder.
- Police found Datuwata's body and two hand guns in his vehicle, Kasuyo said, adding that policemen rescued Datuwata's wounded children. Doctors later declared the pair stable.
- Datuwata is the 63rd person killed ahead of this year's May elections.
- "The Philippine National Police are trying to stop more killings prior to the elections," said Kasuyo.
- He said more policemen would be fielded to the country's elections hot-spots.
- Datuwata was a candidate of the party of mayoral bet Bai Zeny Dilangalen, wife of Congressman Didagen Dilangalen, of the first district of Cotabato.
- Dilangalen used to be an ally of former President Joseph Estrada, but changed allegiance to President Gloria Arroyo when the former was ousted in 2001.
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