Superintendent Teng Tocao, acting Sultan Kudarat police director, said Antonio Madreza, assistant manager of the NFA provincial office, was shot dead at about 7:55 a.m., a few minutes after a car bomb exploded along the main road in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao, killing five people and seriously wounding 17 others.
Madreza was the second government official killed in Isulan town since last year when a ranking official of the Department of Public Works and Highways was gunned down in front of the town’s public market.
According to reports, Madreza and his wife had come from the Isulan public market when they were attacked in Barangay Kalawag.
Tocao said the assassins overtook Madreza’s motorcycle, fired at him several times, and then hastily left.
Scene-of-the-crime operatives found several caliber .45 empty shells at the crime scene.