Politics eyed in Calbayog mayor’s slay | Global News

Politics eyed in Calbayog mayor’s slay

/ 08:39 AM May 04, 2011

TACLOBAN CITY — A daughter of slain Mayor Reynaldo Uy of Calbayog City cited politics as behind her father’s death Saturday evening.

Uy, 59, a party-mate of the President, was gunned down by a lone gunman inside a covered court in Hinabangan town, also in Samar, at 9:30 p.m.

He was hit in the left upper part of the chest by a bullet that also grazed the right arm of Samar Board Member Eunice Babalcon, who was seated next to Uy at the presidential table.

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The doctors attending Uy at the Divine Word Hospital in Tacloban City declared him dead at 1:20 a.m. Sunday.

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Babalcon, 29, has been declared out of danger although she remained at the same hospital.

In a prepared speech delivered before the media Monday, Rosa Jessica Uy-Delgado, Uy’s eldest daughter, said the killing of her father was a “political murder” perpetrated by a “highly corrupt politician.” /INQUIRER

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