Mindanaotoday.com | Maguindanao town election officer survives gun attack in Cotabato
By: Edwin Fernandez
COTABATO CITY – An unidentified gunman shot and injured a municipal election officer of the Maguindanao town of Datu Odin Sinsuat while he was buying bananas along a roadside fruit stall here past noon Friday.
The victim, Raufen Mangelen, was heading home from Friday prayers when attacked at about 12:45 p.m. in front of a fruit stand at the corner of Gov. Gutierrez and Sinsuat Avenues.
Lawyer Udtog Tago, Maguindanao provincial election supervisor, said Mangelen sustained two gunshot wounds on his left arm and is now recuperating in an undisclosed hospital.
“I don’t know if he has threats on his life,” Tago told reporters in an interview.
He said Mangelen has not mentioned anything about intimidation when they were together recently in Barangay Kusiong, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao, on a humanitarian mission for victims of Typhoon Paeng.
“He has not mentioned anything about threats,” he said.
Police are still conducting a post-crime investigation. (PNA)
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