Philippine Mayor Antonio Cando Halili shot dead

A Philippine mayor who paraded suspected drug dealers through the streets of his city was shot dead on Monday while attending a weekly flag-raising ceremony for government officials, police said.

Mayor Antonio Cando Halili was declared dead on arrival at hospital from a single bullet wound to the chest, sustained as he and civil servants sang the national anthem in Tanauan, a city in Batangas province southwest of the capital Manila. 'We are shocked, we are saddened,' Vice Mayor Jhoanna Villamor, who was standing beside Halili, told radio station DZBB after the shooting.