Pangasinan accountant survives ambush

DAGUPAN CITY, Philippines – The assistant provincial accountant of Pangasinan on Tuesday survived a gun attack in front of her house in Lingayen town in Pangasinan province, according to a police official.

Superintendent Gary Garen, Lingayen police chief, said that assistant provincial accountant Judith Santillan, 50, had just stepped off a tricycle that took her from the capitol to her house at Guilig St. in Lingayen when one of two men riding on a motorcycle shot her at about 5:20 p.m. Tuesday.

Garen said two bullets hit Santillan at her lower back, both of them exiting through her abdomen.

Santillan was immediately taken to a hospital here, where she is now in stable condition, Garen said.

Investigators recovered two deformed slugs of a caliber .45 pistol from the crime scene.

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