By Edwin Fernandez
PIGCAWAYAN, North Cotabato – A village chair reporting for work survived a gun attack here Wednesday morning by trading gunshots with his attackers.
The Pigcawayan municipal police immediately launched a manhunt for two gunmen who escaped when Barangay Presbitero chairman Emmanuel Doctolero pulled his pistol and traded shots with them.
Doctolero, a member of a local gun club in North Cotabato, said he was walking toward the village hall along the national highway when he noticed two men on a motorbike moving toward him.
One of them pulled a pistol as they approached and opened fire.
Doctolero, who is also armed with a pistol, fired back, forcing the attackers to escape.
The village official was unharmed and could not say if any of the suspects was hit. The municipal police station is still determining the motive and identities of the attackers. (PNA)
