COTABATO CITY — A college teacher was seriously wounded in another shooting incident in Lamitan City late Saturday, the second in the area in just three days, amid a nationwide election-related gun ban.

The 25-year-old Johnus Flores Lim, who sustained multiple bullet wounds from the attack, is a teacher in the Furigay College Incorporated in Lamitan City. He was immediately brought by barangay emergency responders to the Lamitan City District Hospital for treatment.

Lt. Col. Elmer P. Solon, Lamitan City police chief, told reporters on Sunday that Mr. Lim was seated on his motorcycle parked along a highway in Sitio Baroy in Barangay Sengal when one of two motorcycle-riding men that came close shot him repeatedly with a .45 caliber pistol.

The duo immediately drove away after Mr. Lim fell on the ground, according to witnesses.

City officials have assured the family of Mr. Lim to facilitate his transfer to a more modern hospital in Zamboanga City as recommended by the attending  physician Nurullaji A. Aguil.

Brig. Gen. Romeo J. Macapaz, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, said on Sunday that he had ordered police units in Basilan to intensify their enforcement throughout the province of the nationwide gun ban being imposed since Jan. 12 by the Commission on Elections, meant to ensure peaceful elections in May 2025.

Businessman Abduraza Saidde Madiza, was also killed in an ambush on Thursday night in Barangay Malinis in Lamitan City.

Mr. Madiza was riding his motorcycle, on his way home to Barangay Limook in the north of the city, when he was attacked by gunmen along the route, killing him instantly.

His attackers managed to escape using a getaway motorcycle before responding volunteer community watchmen and barangay officials could reach the scene. — John Felix M. Unson

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