Ex-barangay chairman, kin killed in Sulu ambush

COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Armed men killed a 27-year-old Tausug man and his relative, a former barangay chairman, in an ambush in Indanan town in Sulu on Saturday.

In separate reports yesterday, officials of the Sulu provincial police office and Brig. Gen. Romeo Juan Macapaz, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region police director, said Fadjiri Abdirajan Biao and his 61-year-old elder, Faizal Ibrahim Biao, died on the spot from gunshot wounds.

The older Biao served as chairman of Barangay Kandaga in Talipao town in Sulu.

According to the Indanan municipal police station, the Biaos were on a motorcycle when they were attacked by armed men in a sport utility vehicle along a secluded stretch of the highway in Barangay Kajatian.