Manila, April 9 -- Police in Sultan Kudarat and Maguindanao del Sur launched a joint manhunt for gunmen who abducted and killed a local political coordinator for the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP), authorities said Wednesday.

Modesto Tamayo, 57, a resident of Barangay Romualdez, Pres. Quirino town in Sultan Kudarat, was found dead with multiple stab wounds in a farm lot in Barangay Malangit, Pandag town in Maguindanao del Sur on Wednesday noon, according to Lt. Col. Jopy Ventura, spokesperson of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Tamayo was the municipal coordinator for the PFP, according to Marlon Villa, a candidate of the party for vice mayor of President Quirino town.

Villa said Tamayo a...