A policeman assigned to the Northern Police district was killed not in the line of duty, but in a hit-and-run incident in Navotas City on Monday.
The Philippine Star identified the deceased as Police Officer 3 Edgardo Bugallon, 48, who was on his way home, from Sto Nino, Navotas, when a speeding tractor head sideswiped him.
Police said said the impact caused Bugallon to get knocked off from his vehicle and land 20 meters away. The policeman pronounced dead on arrival at the Tondo General Hospital. The vehicle and its driver, on the other hand, were nowhere to be found.
