PAGADIAN CITY (Mindanao Examiner / July 22, 2013) – Police launched a manhunt for a village watchman who shot and wounded a 21-year old student in Zamboanga del Sur province in southern Philippines, police said.
Police said Lando Ebarial shot Jean Dodoy in the village of Libertad in Dimataling town and fled after the attack.
Dodoy was just heading home after buying cigarettes at a store when Ebarial shot him without an apparent reason. The victim was shot in the stomach and elbow, according to police investigator SPO3 Francisco Suarin, Jr.
“Ebarial was apparently drunk when he shot the victim. He escaped after the shooting and police are searching for him,” Suarin told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
He said Dodoy was rushed to hospital. (Mindanao Examiner)
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