By MB Online

The vice mayor of Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao died in an ambush in his house on Sunday morning, November 27.

ABS-CBN News quoted initial police reports stating that Vice Mayor Anwar Sindatuk was shot by an unknown number of unidentified armed men who entered his house at 8:20 a.m.

The vice mayor is expected to be buried today according to Islamic tradition.

Sindatuk won in the May 2016 elections as Datu Saudi Ampatuan’s first municipal councilor.

In October, he assumed the post of vice mayor from Bai Anida Dimaukom, who succeeded her husband Samsudin.

The former mayor Dimaukom was among the 10 persons killed in an alleged encounter with police in Makilala, Cotabato on October 28.

Before Dimaukom’s death, he was publicly accused by President Rodrigo Duterte of being involved in the illegal narcotics trade.