Mayor in Camarines Sur shot dead

Oct 28, 2012 3:57 PM PHT

Agence France-Presse

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Raul Matamorosa, mayor of Lupi, Camarines Sur, was having a television repaired in a shop in Naga City when he was shot in the head by a man accompanied by two accomplices Saturday

MANILA, Philippines – A town mayor belonging to the Liberal Party has been shot dead by unidentified attackers, police said Sunday, October 28.

Raul Matamorosa, mayor of Lupi, Camarines Sur, was having a television repaired in a shop in Naga City when he was shot in the head by a man accompanied by two accomplices Saturday, October 27, police said.

Matamorosa, a member of Aquino’s Liberal Party, was rushed to Naga’s Mother Seton Hospital where he later died.

Police said the motive for the killing was still unknown, although revenge killings linked to politics are common in the Philippines.

Aquino’s spokesmen were not immediately available for comment.

In April 2011 another Liberal Party member, Reynaldo Uy, a mayor in the central Philippines, was slain in an ambush. His killers remain at large.

Matamorosa’s killing came seven months before local elections, when politically related violence is expected to reach its peak. – Agence France-Presse