COTABATO CITY — A candidate for governor of Sarangani province sustained bullet wounds in the abdomen in an attack late Saturday by motorcycle-riding assailants in Barangay City Heights in General Santos City.
In separate initial reports released on Sunday, the General Santos City Police Office and the Police Regional Office-12 stated that the gun attack victim, Gladden Selidio Lim, was immediately brought by emergency responders to a hospital, where he is now undergoing treatment.
Police investigators and intelligence agents are still trying to identify the man who repeatedly shot Mr. Lim with a pistol and hurriedly escaped using a getaway motorcycle.
He had just emerged from a Christian worship site along Dacera Avenue in Barangay City Heights when a man shot him repeatedly with a .45 caliber pistol and immediately escaped using a getaway motorcycle.
Radio reports in Central Mindanao Cities on Sunday morning stated that Mr. Lim is a candidate for governor of Sarangani, one of the four provinces in region 12.
Police probers are still clueless if the atrocity that left Mr. Lim wounded could be related to his candidacy for governor of Sarangani. — John Felix M. Unson
