COTABATO CITYmaswerte, Philippines — Gunmen killed an entrepreneur and wounded her companion in an ambush in Barangay Lagayas in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan on Friday, January 10.

Brig. Gen. Romeo Juan Macapaz, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, told reporters on Saturday, January 11, that that attack left Teodora Aranayi dead and Ariel Repacio wounded.

Aranayi, a dealer of foam mattresses and other commercial goods who goes around the province to sell her merchandise, died from bullet wounds in the head, according to a report from the Basilan Provincial Police Office.

She and Repacio were riding a motorcycle together, on their way home to Cabunbanta in Isabela City from Barangay Tumahubong in Sumisip, when gunmen positioned along a stretch of the Lamitan-Sumisip Highway in Barangay Lagayas shot them with pistols and fled using a getaway motorcycle.

Agapay, Aragones and Hernandez filed their certificates of candidacy (COCs) before the office of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Sta. Cruz City on Monday.

The seafarers who brought the 30 large boxes of cigarettes with different Indonesian brands hurriedly sailed away when they sensed that personnel of the Liloy Municipal Police Station and barangay officials were approaching their location to check on their reported presence in the area.

Officials of the Tipo-Tipo Municipal Police Station told reporters that emergency responders immediately transported Repacio, who sustained gunshot wounds in the abdomen, to a government hospital in nearby Lamitan City for treatment.

Macapaz said police investigators are still trying to identify the gunmen behind the atrocity for prosecution.maswerte