DIFFUN, Quirino—A Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) official in the province was shot and killed on Tuesday by two men at a DENR checkpoint in Maddela town, police and DENR officials said. Alfredo Almueda, 59, community environment and natural resources officer of the Maddela-Nagtipunan area, was attacked in Barangay Villa Sur past 12 a.m. on Tuesday, New Year's Day, while he and forest guards Gene Martin and Ronaldo Calonge were at a DENR checkpoint on a dirt road leading to Barangay San Pedro. "They proceeded to the area after they got a tip through a text message that a shipment of illegally cut logs would be passing there," said ...
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