POLICE are now conducting a manhunt operation against a merchant who shot and killed a village official late Tuesday afternoon in a remote village in Pangasinan province, police reports said on Thursday.

Reports at the Philippine National Police National Operations Center in Camp Crame identified the wanted merchant as Ernesto Tapiador, 50, and a resident of Barangay Sawat, Urbiztondo town, Pangasinan province.

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