CITY OF CALAPAN—A businessman was shot dead in Gloria town in Oriental Mindoro province on Monday morning, police said.
Insp. Ruel Lito Fronda, Gloria police chief, said Joel Seno Loto, 42, who was engaged in trading steel trusses, was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle in Barangay (village) Kawit at 10:15 a.m.
Loto died while being taken to the Pinamalayan Community Hospital in Pinamalayan town.
The suspects, who wore helmets, fled toward Bansud town.
This was the second gun attack reported in a week in Gloria town.
On Oct. 9, Zenaida Luz, regional head of the Citizens Crime Watch in Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan), was gunned down in front of her house in the town by two men who later turned out to be police officers. RAM/rga