Eastern Visayas police official hurt in gun attack

LEYTE. Police investigate the ambush of Police Senior Inspector Jovel Young, 39, outside his house on Tuesday, October 22, in Barangay Buri, Palo, Leyte. (Ronald Reyes/Sunstar Philippines)
LEYTE. Police investigate the ambush of Police Senior Inspector Jovel Young, 39, outside his house on Tuesday, October 22, in Barangay Buri, Palo, Leyte. (Ronald Reyes/Sunstar Philippines)

A POLICE official in Eastern Visayas was wounded in a gun attack Tuesday morning, October 23, in Barangay Buri, Palo, Leyte.

Police Senior Inspector Jovel Young, 39, was shot by still unidentified gunmen outside his house around 7:10 a.m. Tuesday. He was with his two children inside a vehicle when the attack happened.

“Our initial investigation showed that the unknown gunmen were onboard a white van and grey-colored Fortuner vehicle,” Chief Inspector Joemen Collado, chief of Palo municipal police station, told SunStar Philippines.

(SunStar Philippines)

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