Manila, July 10 -- Police tracker teams are pursuing an armed suspect who fatally shot a farmer and wounded his wife early Thursday in Parang, Maguindanao del Norte, an official said.

Major Blayn Lomas-e, chief of the Parang municipal police station, identified the slain farmer as Samuel Lamis of Purok Panay, Barangay Sarmiento, and his injured wife as Fylin Lamis.

Citing witnesses' accounts, Lomas-e said the attacker was identified as Jonathan Macapundag, a resident of Barangay Polloc, also in Parang town.

"The victims were walking on their way to the farm at about 5 a.m. when the suspect suddenly opened fire at the couple and fled," Lomas-e said in a local radio station interview.

Responding villagers rushed the couple to a hospital...