Cop shot, another hurt by gunmen in Pangasinan

San Carlos City, Pangasinan (Google maps)

DAGUPAN CITY — Gunmen shot and killed a policeman, and wounded another police officer who came to his aid on Tuesday (June 6) at San Carlos City in Pangasinan province.

PO2 Jimbo Agtarap, 30, a member of the San Carlos police force, was attacked at 8 a.m. by men riding on a white van in Barangay (village) Agdao, said Senior Supt. Ronald Oliver Lee, provincial police director.

PO1 Rachael Cancino, the first police officer to respond to the gun attack, was also shot.

Agtarap was taken to a hospital but did not make it alive. Cancino is now being treated in a hospital in San Carlos City.  SFM/rga

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