COTABATO CITY -- An official of the Civil Service Commission in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (CSC-ARMM) was killed while another was injured after they were hit by stray bullets in Marawi City Thursday morning, police said.
Chief Supt. Reuben Sindac, police Regional Director for ARMM, identified the slain official as CSC-ARMM assistant director Marvin Ablando, 45, who was hit in the head.
Sandra Arnica Uzman, 43, CSC-ARMM regional director, was also hit in the forehead, but now in stable condition, Sindac added.
Citing reports from Marawi City, Sindac said Usman and Ablando were on board a government vehicle on their way to the provincial capitol of Lanao del Sur in Marawi from Mindanao State University (MSU) campus when bullets from nowhere hit the vehicle at past 10 a.m.
They were there on official business in observance of Civil Service month celebration.
Sindac said both officials were immediately brought to the nearby Amai Pakpak Hospital but Ablando was pronounced dead upon arrival by attending physicians. (PNA)
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