CABANATUAN CITY – A 32-year-old female online seller was killed while a rice mill owner survived in separate gun attacks, both perpetrated by riding in tandem suspects, in Nueva Ecija on Sunday.
Joan Santos, resident of Barangay Bantug Norte, died on the spot after she was shot by still unidentified suspects along the Nueva Ecija-Aurora road in Barangay Pangatian this city at around 6:20 p.m., police said.
Investigation showed Santos was driving an improvised tricycle, locally known as kolong-kolong, with a male cousin when the gunman shot her “using a short firearm.’
Earlier, about 7:30 a.m. that same day, businessman Albert Duran, 64, was “standing inside his compound (rice mill) when shot by two men on board a motorcycle,” police reported.
Hit “several times in his legs, arm and stomach,” the victim was rushed to the Bongabon District Hospital and later transferred to a private hospital here.
Investigations are being conducted as the suspects in both attacks have managed to escape.
