LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – Five persons were
killed and two others were wounded in separate shooting incidents involving
motorcycle-riding gunmen in Pangasinan last week.
Unidentified assailants gunned down Larry
Miranda, 41, a former barangay councilman, and Virgilio Ferrer, 58, both
residents of Barangay Longos in Calasiao town, along a road in Barangay
Pangalangan in San Carlos City Jan. 17.
Miranda suffered multiple gunshot wounds in
the body while Ferrer was hit in the back.
They were pronounced dead on arrival at the
Pangasinan Provincial Hospital.
Police said the victims were on a motorcycle
on their way home from a cockpit in Barangay Capataan when three unidentified
suspects on two motorcycles chased them.
In Bugallon town, Mark Garcia, 42, a resident
of Barangay Maambal in Pozorrubio town and caretaker at a poultry farm of
former Binmaley mayor Lorenzo Cerezo, was shot dead in Barangay Salomague at
1:15 a.m. a day earlier.
The suspects also took the P70,000 cash that
he was carrying.
Two farmers – Jesus Sison, 63, a resident of
Barangay Balococ, Lingayen town, and Reynaldo Delfin, 43, of Barangay
Amamperez, Villasis – were gunned down Jan. 16.
Sison was collecting firewood when an
unidentified suspect shot him repeatedly with a Cal. 45 pistol.
Delfin was buying cigarettes at a convenience
store when a suspect identified as Primitivo Barnachea, 63, who is also a
farmer, shot him. Jonathan Barnachea, who was tending the store, was hit by a
stray bullet and was hospitalized.
Meanwhile, Anthony Perez, 39, an employee of
PhilHealth was wounded when unidentified gunmen shot him along Barangay
Matalava in West Lingayen town at 10:40 p.m. – Eva Visperas and
Cesar Ramirez
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