PUERTO PRINCESA CITY: Tension escalated here as supporters of dismissed Mayor Lucilo Bayron have barricaded the city hall gate since Sunday to prevent Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)-Region 4B Director Florida Dijan from serving the dismissal order against the mayor.

On Friday, the sixth day of the stand off at city hall, a civil society group sent a letter to DILG-OIC Catalino Cuy asking him to dismantle the barricade and expel Bayron and his supporters from city hall.

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