Negros councilor shot dead
BACOLOD CITY, Philippines – A councilor of Ilog town in Negros Occidental was gunned down in front of a hotel here yesterday morning, police said.
The victim, councilor Antonio Karem Geguillana, in his early 40s, was declared dead on arrival at the Bacolod Doctor’s Hospital.
Last Monday, a barangay kagawad (councilman) in E.B. Magalona town, Rolando Lozada, 41, was also shot dead.
Superintendent Ricardo de la Paz, Bacolod police chief, said Geguillana was about to board his car in front of the East View Hotel when he was shot. The gunman even fired three more shots as he fell on the pavement, reports said.
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