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Defeated bet does a Rambo

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July 18, 2002 | 12:00am
COTABATO CITY — Residents of a North Cotabato village ran for their lives yesterday when a defeated candidate for kagawad (councilman) went berserk, indiscriminately firing an M-60 machinegun.

The suspect, Kabuat Mentang, escaped after sending his neighbors in Barangay Central Labas, Midsayap town scampering for safety. He is now being hunted down.

Mentang, authorities claimed, has links with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and is known to have a stockpile of firearms.

No one was reported hurt in the indiscriminate firing. — John Unson

AUTHORITIES

BARANGAY

BARANGAY CENTRAL LABAS

COTABATO

FIRING

JOHN UNSON

KABUAT MENTANG

MENTANG

MIDSAYAP

MORO ISLAMIC LIBERATION FRONT

NORTH COTABATO
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