PAGADIAN CITY: Police are investigating the murder of a village chief who was shot in an attack in Pagadian City in the southern Filipino province of Zamboanga del Sur, officials said on Sunday.

Insp. Dahlan Samuddin, a regional police spokesman, said the 56-year old Sangcadra Dimasar was killed instantly from the attack in the village of Kawit. He said two motorcycle gunmen shot the official as he was walking in the village on Saturday morning.

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