Barangay official killed, another hurt in Batangas shooting

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LUCENA CITY — A village secretary was killed and the treasurer was wounded in a shooting incident Wednesday in Bauan town in Batangas province.

The Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) police in a report said Jojo Acuzar, secretary of Barangay (village) Sta. Maria was driving the barangay mobile patrol vehicle at around 12:45 p.m. with Demetrio Silang, the village treasurer, as a passenger when the assailant, armed with a still unknown firearm, who was waiting at the shoulder of the road repeatedly shot at them.

After the shooting, the gunman fled aboard a motorcycle driven by his cohort.

The police report said Acuzar died at Bauan Doctor’s Hospital while Silang was undergoing treatment from bullet wounds.

The police are conducting further investigations to unmask the gunman and his accomplice.

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