{"id":13745,"date":"2025-05-13T00:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=13745"},"modified":"2025-05-13T00:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:41:39","slug":"poll-watcher-among-3-killed-in-basilan-election-day-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/poll-watcher-among-3-killed-in-basilan-election-day-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL WATCHER AMONG 3 KILLED IN BASILAN ELECTION DAY CLASH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>A PREDAWN boat clash hours before elections began on Monday left three people, including a poll watcher, dead while two others were wounded &nbsp;in Basilan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Police identified the fatalities as poll watcher Murasidul Kidong Abduarahman and supporters Samier Allil Jamiri and Ben Bakil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The three were aboard a motorboat with mayoral candidate Jamar Mansul&#8217;s convoy when attacked by armed men on another boat near Sangbay Big Island off Hadji Muhtamad town in Basilan at about 1:45 a.m. Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The wounded were supporters Haber and Zaldy Alih. They were brought to a hospital for treatment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Police chief Maj. Nursaibar Mahadi said his seaborne patrol team engaged in a gunfight eight armed men who refused to stop for inspection.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;They suddenly opened fire, prompting our team to retaliate in a five-minute firefight,&#8221; he reported, noting three attackers jumped overboard.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mansul, who served as mayor of Hadji Muhtamad from 2013 to 2019 and one of three candidates, landed unharmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PREDAWN boat clash hours before elections began on Monday left three people, including a poll watcher, dead while two others were wounded &nbsp;in Basilan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13747,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745\/revisions\/13747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}