Members of the board of election inspectors force their way out of the swelling crowd to deliver election returns to the Almendras Gym on midnight of Monday. ( Sun.Star Davao/Rene B. Lumawag)
CEBU CITY -- The canvassing of votes in Bogo town was suspended Wednesday after tension heated up between supporters of congressional candidates Celestino “Tining” Martinez III and Benhur Salimbangon.
It will resume Thursday in the Provincial Capitol with a new board of canvassers, amid officials’ hopes that placing 101 kilometers between most of the warring camps’ supporters and the canvassing will help defuse the tension.
MANILA -- Seven government troopers were killed and three others injured in an ambush by New People's Army (NPA) guerrillas in a remote village in Moliney town in Abra on Wednesday morning.
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- Pampanga Provincial Police Director Keith Ernald Singian ordered Wednesday the speedy resolution of reports of ballot snatching and robbery in band in Barangay Batasan, Arayat.
DAVAO CITY -- A mayoral candidate in Malita, Davao del Sur and his son were shot dead Wednesday afternoon by still unidentified armed men over copies of election returns.
