Admin party coordinator in Sultan Kudarat slain in Maguindanao del Sur

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TACURONG CITY, Sultan Kudarat — A political coordinator of Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP) in President Quirino town, Sultan Kudarat province was found dead in Pandag town, Maguindanao del Sur, police said Wednesday.

Lieutenant Colonel Jopy Ventura, speaking for police in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), identified the victim as Modesto Tamayo, 57, of Barangay Romualdez, President Quirino.

Citing police reports from Pandag municipal police office, Ventura said Tamayo, who suffered multiple stab wounds in various parts of his body, was found on Tuesday morning in a wetland in Barangay Malangit of Pandag.

Marlon Villa, a candidate for vice mayor of President Quirino under PFP, said Tamayo was his municipal coordinator and was helping in his campaign.

Villa said unidentified gunmen abducted Tamayo from his residence at about 6 p.m. on Monday and forced him into a white van then sped away.

Tamayo’s daughter told reporters that the gunmen arrived at their home and dragged her father toward a waiting white van.

“We were traumatized, we were helpless since they carry firearms,” the daughter, asking that her identity be kept in wraps, said.

She said that when found, her father was beyond recognition due to bruises and wounds on his face and all over his body.

The family is now crying for justice for the victim, whom his daughter said had no known enemies and was “everybody’s friend in the village.”

Police in Pandag and President Quirino are still determining the motive of the crime and the identity of the perpetrators.