OFW shot dead

CABANATUAN CITY, Philippines – A vacationing overseas Filipino worker was shot dead by a lone assailant in Guimba, Nueva Ecija Friday.

Abner Abuan was killed two days after he arrived home in Barangay Veronica to visit his sick mother, Senior Superintendent Crizaldo Nievez, provincial police director, said.

Abuan died while being treated at the Guimba General Hospital for gunshot wounds in the head and body.

The victim was talking to a certain Helen Tiopanco on Danzalan street when a man on a motorcycle shot him at around 6:15 a.m.

Police have yet to determine the motive for the killing.