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MASBATE CITY, Philippines — A supporter of a candidate in the barangay (village) elections in Masbate was shot dead by a supporter of his candidate's rival in Mobo town on Monday afternoon, a sketchy report reaching the provincial police here said.

 

Police Officer 1 Haidelyn Pimentel Arevalo, spokesperson of the Masbate Provincial Police, quoting the report from the Mobo Municipal Police, said that a certain Larry Canale, 49, a resident of Barangay Baang, Mobo, was killed at around 1:30 p.m. just outside the Umabay Interior Elementary School in Baag, which is used as polling precinct, while voting was going on inside the school.

 

Arevalo said the Mobo police...

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