Ex-Pampanga executive killed

GUAGUA, Pampanga, Philippines – A retired provincial health officer of Pampanga was shot dead in Barangay Sta. Monica, Lubao town last Tuesday night and probers were checking if politics had something to do with the killing.

Senior Superintendent Manuel Gaerlan, provincial police director, said the victim, Dr. Ernesto Santos, 65, sustained a gunshot wound in the chest.

Guagua municipal administrator Isaac Panganiban Jr. said Santos was an identified supporter of Guagua mayoral candidate Rudy Reyes of the Nationalist People’s Coalition.

This town, within the second district where President Arroyo is running for Congress, in now under the “watch list” of the Commission on Elections together with the towns of Apalit, Mexico, San Simon, Mabalacat, Arayat, Porac, and Magalang. – Ding Cervantes