A Philippine labour leader who once led a communist urban hit-squad was killed yesterday by an unidentified gunman at a university campus in Manila.
Felimon Lagman, 49, chairman of the left-wing Union of Filipino Workers (BMP), died in hospital more than three hours after he was shot in the head.
'My brother is dead,' said his elder brother, former congressman Edcel Lagman. 'He has lived by the hour and has lived dangerously for pro-people causes he espoused all these years.'
Dozens of BMP members gathered at the Philippine Heart Centre burst into tears on hearing Lagman was dead. Lagman was shot in front of a building at the University of the Philippines in suburban Quezon City while on his way to a meeting.
Regional police commander Edgardo Aglipay said initial investigations showed there were four suspects in the attack, but only one of them fired at Lagman. Deutsche Presse-Agentur
