Unidentified gunmen ambushed and critically injured a faculty principal in Midsayap city, Cotabato province, on Tuesday morning, August 12, 2025. INQUIRER FILES
COTABATO CITY – Unidentified gunmen ambushed and critically injured a faculty principal in Midsayap city, Cotabato province, on Tuesday morning.
Police in Midsayap city recognized the sufferer as Arlyn D. Acebar, principal of the Agriculture Elementary College in Barangay Agriculture.
Preliminary info gathered by the Midsayap municipal police station, headed by Lt. Colonel Benhur Catcatan, stated the sufferer had simply arrived in entrance of the Agriculture Elementary College at about 7 a.m. on board a maroon Toyota Rush automotive when one in every of two males on a bike shot her a number of occasions.
The suspect rapidly fled whereas responding site visitors officers and oldsters rushed the sufferer to the hospital.
Arcebal was newly transferred to the Agriculture Elementary College from Salunayan Elementary College as a part of the reshuffling of college heads in Cotabato province.
Following the capturing, dad and mom rushed to the varsity to carry dwelling their youngsters for concern they could get caught within the crossfire when the state of affairs will get worse.
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Police are nonetheless investigating the incident as of the time of the report./coa
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