By LEILANIE ADRIANO
MARCOS, Ilocos Norte—A village chief running for mayor of this town was gunned down on Saturday afternoon, becoming the second mayoral candidate here shot by motorcycle-riding men.
Fortuna barangay captain Alfredo Arce, 62, was driving his motorcycle on his way home from a birthday party in his village around 2 p.m. when unidentified men riding in tandem on a motorcycle shot him several times, police said.
Arce was running as an independent candidate against incumbent Mayor Salvador Pillos of the Lakas Christian Muslim Democrats and neophyte candidate Arsenio Agustin of the Nacionalista Party.
Pillos himself was shot in front of the Marcos Agro-industrial School on Feb. 18. He survived with a few scrapes.
Police said Arce was shot twice below the left ear. The bullets exited through his armpit.
