ZAMBOANGA CITY: Two gunmen riding a motorcycle killed a police officer minutes after he and his team arrested a suspected drug pusher in a buy-bust along Cariño Compound in Camino Nuevo here on late Thursday night.

Chief Insp. Helen Galvez, regional police spokesperson, said Senior Police Officer 3 Ronie Alar Adanza was heading home on his motorcycle after the operation and stopped to talk to a group of civilians when the gunmen arrived and shot him in the head.

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