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Tag: Cebu mayor

Posted inAT Finance, Philippines

Philippine Police cite ‘politics’ as possible motive in mayor killing

by Asia Times staff September 6, 2018February 18, 2020

Local politicians in the Philippines continue to see their lives extinguished in grim fashion, with another mayor killed on Wednesday. It was the third murder of a mayor in the country in the span of three months. Cebu town mayor Mariano Blanco III was shot to death in his office in Ronda town on Wednesday, […]

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