Woman shot dead in Pangasinan

PANGSINGAN, Philippines  – Unidentified gunmen killed a woman in Barangay Cabalitian here on Thursday.

Virginia Balangue, 45; her husband Arsenio, 52, and Artemio Canaveral, 42, were catching beetles when she was shot. Arsenio and Canaveral were unhurt.

Maj. Leonard Zacarias, town police chief, said the victim was declared dead on arrival at the Asingan Community Hospital.

Probers recovered six bullet shells from a caliber .45 pistol at the scene