PNP to work with NBI in probe on Calbayog mayor's slay, maintains Aquino's group fired first shot
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 10) — The Philippine National Police promised to work with the National Bureau of Investigation in looking into the killing of Calbayog City Mayor Ronald Aquino in Samar, but maintained that it was the slain official's group which fired the first shot during the incident.
Citing the Police Regional Office 8, PNP Chief Gen. Debold Sinas it was Aquino's team which initiated the gunfight with a vehicle carrying authorities from the Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group and Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit. Killed in the incident were the mayor, his driver, his police security escort, and at least two other police officers in the group that clashed with Aquino's men.