Senior Inspector Efren Sabuco was taken to the Bicol Medical Center for treatment of a gunshot wound in the left face.
A motorist, identified as Lelo Verdadero, whose vehicle was tailing Sabuco’s patrol car, was hit by a stray bullet in the abdomen.
Reports said the guerrillas waylaid Sabuco in Barangay Sta. Maria, Lagonoy town at about 8:30 a.m.
Earlier that day, NPA rebels flagged down a 10-wheeler ice delivery truck along the Maharlika Highway in Barangay Cabungan, Balatan town and then torched it. — Jaime Laude