PAGADIAN CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Apr. 16, 2013) – Unidentified gunmen killed a woman and wounded her companion in an ambushed Tuesday afternoon in the town of Kumalarang in the southern Filipino province of Zamboanga del Sur, police said.
Police said the victims – Nely Joy Molina and Reneboy Ampoan – were riding tandem on a motorcycle when 6 armed men opened fire at them in the village called Mahayahay. Molina was killed in the attack while Ampoan survived, but is wounded.
The gunmen fled after the shooting and police said it launched a manhunt to capture the assailants. No individual or group claimed responsibility for the attack whose motive is still unknown. (Mindanao Examiner)
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