Manila, April 22 -- A shooting incident between the groups of a mayoral candidate and a municipal councilor left one person dead and another wounded in Tayum, Abra on Monday.

In a phone interview with reporters at Camp Crame on Tuesday, Abra Police Provincial Office Director, Col. Froiland Lopez, identified the fatality as Jay-ar Tanura and the wounded as Jordan Calaustro Barcena.

He said both Tanura and Barcena were on board a convoy of mayoral candidate Kathlia Carino Alcantara along with Barangay Budac chairman Ryan Luna and a certain Raffy Tejero who were campaigning in Sitio Agdamay in Barangay Budac, Tayum.

Witnesses said Luna and Tejero fired the first shots at the convoy of municipal councilor Walter Tugadi, prompting a concern...