CSC-ARMM asst. director killed by stray bullets in Marawi
LANAO DEL SUR --- A stray bullet killed an assistant regional director of the Civil Service Commission while on official business in Marawi City Thursday.
The 45-year-old Marvin Ablando died from a bullet wound in the head.
He was assistant director of the field office of the Civil Service Commission in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
The regional office of CSC-ARMM is located inside the 32-hectare regional capitol compound of the autonomous region in Cotabato City.
Chief Supt. Reuben Theodore Sindac, director of the Police Regional Office-ARMM, said Ablando and their director, Sandra Arnica Uzman were on their way to the provincial capitol of Lanao del Sur from the Mindanao State University in Marawi City when bullets hit their vehicle.
Uzman, 43, was slightly wounded in the forehead, according to Sindac.
Sindac said Ablando was rushed to the nearby Amai Pakpak Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival by attending physicians there.