Cop wounded, guard slain in Batangas shootings

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LUCENA CITY — A police intelligence officer was wounded, while a security guard was killed in separate shooting incidents Sunday and Monday, Jan. 30 and 31, in Batangas province.

The Batangas police said in a report that Master Sergeant Fidel Magundayao stopped his motorcycle on the roadside at Barangay Antipolo Del Sur in Lipa City around 8 p.m.

Magundayao saw a man drawing a firearm who repeatedly shot him.

Though wounded on both legs, the cop, who is assigned to the intelligence section of the local police, was able to return fire but missed his target.

The gunman, identified by the police report as Ariel Bathan alias “Pusa,” fled aboard a motorcycle.

Investigators said the wounded police was rushed to the nearest hospital for treatment.

The report did not provide the possible motive behind the shooting. Police launched a manhunt for Bathan.

In San Pascual town, security guard Inocencio Ilagan, 54, was walking on his way home in Barangay San Antonio at 3:44 a.m. Monday when a still unidentified male armed with a handgun of still-unknown caliber appeared and repeatedly shot him.

The gunman fled after the shooting.

Ilagan died while being taken to San Antonio Lifecare Hospital due to fatal gunshot wounds on his chest, right arm, and right thigh.

An investigation is ongoing to establish the motive behind the incident. The police also launched a manhunt to arrest the suspect. INQ

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