MANILA, June 18 (dpa): A former mayor arrested for illegal drugs and gun-running charges in the Philippines was shot dead by police on Thursday evening (June 17) after he grabbed the pistol of one of the officers escorting him to a detention facility, police said.
The suspect, Montasser Sabal, was being transported to the national police headquarters in Manila when he was shot inside the police vehicle, said Albert Ignatius Ferro, chief of the criminal investigation division of the national police.
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