MANILA—Three people died in a shooting at a university graduation ceremony in the Philippines’ capital region on Sunday, including a former mayor from the volatile south of the country, police said.
Local Quezon City police chief Remus Medina said the shooting was an assassination of the former mayor of the southern Lamitan city, Rose Furigay. The former businesswoman from a political family is the second leader of the Province of Basilan to be killed in political violence.
