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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

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Ex-mayor survives shootout

A dispute over the mounting of an electrical post led to a shootout yesterday in barangay Bolod, Panglao town which left two wounded including former Panglao mayor Dr. Doloreich Dumaluan.

Based on reports flashed over Station dyRD, at around 2:10 in the afternoon yesterday, Dumaluan confronted personnel of the Bohol Electric Cooperative (Boheco) who were setting up an electrical post for power connection at a resort undergoing construction adjacent to the Dumaluan Beach Resort owned by the former mayor.
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EX-MAYOR Doloreich Dumaluan to be boarded in an ambulance bound for the City Port as the family decided to transfer him to a Cebu hospital last night. Right photo shows the suspected triggerman, Teodulo Macalandag,
reportedly an ex-convict who is working in a security agency. He was also rushed to Gov. Gallares Memorial Hospital. Foto DANNY REYES

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	ROAD MISHAP claimed two lives while two others were brought to the hospital due to injuries. Riders of Hondawave 125, Dionisio Campaso, 31 (shown in photo) of Libaong, Panglao town and Ricardo Campaso, 28, of Villahermoso, Carmen town died on the spot. The Hondawave, bearing plate no. 7A 1629-C, was overtaking a school bus of Crystal-E College when it collided head on with an XRM 125 bearing plate no. 5252-GC, along the national highway at sitio Sambag Gamay, barangay Dao, Dauis town. Attended to by doctors are XRM riders Eugene Jumigop and John Michael Jumigop, both of barangay Dao, Dauis town. Foto DANNY REYES

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