An election officer was killed while another was critically injured in an ambush in Piñan town of Zamboanga del Norte of Philippines.
Maricel Adriatico Peralta, 45, election officer of Mutia town, died immediately.
This was confirmed by Police Captain Pocholo Rolando Guerrero, town cop chief who said Maritess Inding, 52, assistant election officer in Mutia, was being treated in a hospital.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) condemned the killing and it was revealed that Peralta was driving her car and traveling with Inding when motorcycle-riding armed men shot them at 8:42 p.m. as they reached Lapu-Lapu bridge in Piñan.
Dr. Ricardo Awit of the Piñan Municipal Health Office pronounced Peralta dead.
