Phillipines :Mayor Luis Biel to demolish Mosque, Mayor Biel shot to death

Police have maintained news blackout on the killing of a mayor in the southern Philippine island of Basilan, but provincial officials said authorities are facing a blank wall in their effort to know the motive of the attack.

Mayor Luis Biel, of Isabela City, was shot dead Friday within the premises of City Hall, and the lone attacker, identified as Javer Gani, was himself killed by security forces. Four other people were wounded in the crossfire.

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Last month, angry Muslims protested an impending order by Biel to demolish one of the oldest mosques in Isabela City -- the Ihya Unsunna mosque -- to pave the way for the construction of a market depot.


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