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ILIGAN City — A police officer and two other men were hurt by armed men who ambushed a convoy of a town mayor in Barangay Gata, Buadipuso Buntong town in Lanao del Sur at around 10 am Sunday.

Col. Madzgani Mukaram, chief of Provincial Police Office in Lanao del Sur, said Mayor Nasser Pangandaman Jr. of Masiu town, was on the way to his office from Marawi City when gunmen armed with high-powered firearms waylaid his convoy.

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Pangandaman and his escorts cheated death but his police escort, S/Sgt. Jabbar Romato Pangandaman and two others, Jamal Gabriel Pangandaman and Casanoding Mangandog, were injured.

Mukaram said Sgt. Pangandaman sustained a gunshot wound on his abdomen, Jamal on his right knee while Mangandog in his buttocks.

They are now in stable condition at the Amai Pakpak Medical Center.

“The Soco [Scene of the Crime Operatives] were deployed to the crime scene while the motive of the ambush is still to be determined,” police authorities said in a statement.

Lt. Col. Edgar Allan Villanueva, commander of the Army’s 49th Infantry Battalion (49IB), said Pangandaman was scheduled to preside over the regular meeting of the Municipal Peace and Order Council.

Masiu town is under the area of operation of the 49th IB while Buadiposo Buntong, where the ambush happened, is under the 82nd Infantry Battalion.

Buadipos Buntong is around 10 kilometers away from Masiu.

“Our police and Army troopers under the 82nd IB are now scouring the area for the possible arrest of the perpetrators. A SITG (Special Investigation Task Group) will also be activated to help monitor the progress of this case,” Mukaram said. (PNA)

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