Trader killed in Talisay attack

A MEAT dealer was killed while his two workers were wounded after they were shot by motorcycle-riding assailants in barangay Colon, Naga City, southern Cebu.

Russel Aventajado, 30, succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds in the body. He was declraed dead when he and his workers Carlito Orocay, 31, and Horlan Enclonar, 26, were brought to the South General Hospital.

Police said the victims came from a drinking session in barangay Poblacion and were heading home on board a multicab owned by Aventajado when they were waylaid last Thursday night.

PO2 Dionisio Tromata, desk officer of Naga City police, business rivalry is one of the angles being looked into as possible motives for the killing./CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C. BONJOC