Philippines probes police shooting death of mayor & bodyguards in alleged ‘mistaken encounter’

national crimes

The national crimes investigation agency is to investigate the controversial death of a mayor at the hands of the police service, which claims the official and his associates were killed in a shootout that started by mistake.

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) – a body that was modeled on the early-years US FBI – will conduct an inquiry into the death of Calbayog’s mayor, Ronald Aquino, the Department of Justice announced on Tuesday. The elected official and three of his bodyguards were killed on Monday evening in a reported police ambush near the city he governed.

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