BINMALEY – One of the four mayors in Pangasinan supposedly marked for liquidation by hired guns came out in the open and admitted that he is really under threat and is not taking it lightly.

Mayor Simplicio Rosario, who is seeking a second term of office as mayor of Binmaley, said he learned that his life is under threat just two days after San Carlos City Mayor Julian Resuello was killed.

Rosario told newsmen he learned this from friends, some of them from the military, who claimed that they heard from the grapevine he will be the next target of the hired killers after Resuello.

“I was taken aback, especially after they told me that the group that killed Mayor Resuello is the same group that was hired to kill me,” said Rosario, who is running under the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats.

He said he heard rumors the hired killers marked him for liquidation last May 4 although nothing happened to him that day and until now.

In an interview at the municipal hall, Rosario said he had taken extra measures so the hired killers will not take a chance to strike.

Rosario believes that since he has no enemies, it could only be politics behind this threat although he did not elaborate.

The mayor said the threat on his life prompted him and his team to limit their campaign rallies from 5 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. or at most at 8 p.m.

Police Regional Director Leopoldo Bataoil offered some security to Rosario and the four other mayors who were allegedly threatened with liquidation on or before the election.

Another mayor reportedly marked for liquidation is Mayor Julier Resuello, son of the slain Mayor Julian Resuello of San Carlos City.
The two others are from eastern Pangasinan. (PNA)