Guard shoots 2 villagers

TWO persons were wounded in a shooting incident in an east coast village in Zamboanga City, the police reported Monday, April 27.

Police Major Helen Galvez, Police Regional Office-Zamboanga Peninsula information officer, said the incident happened around 11 p.m. Sunday, April 26, in Tolosa village, east of Zamboanga City.

Galvez identified the victim as Dante Cabayacruz Nopoloreyes, 33, and Jaybee Eugenio Manalopilar, 26. Both are residents of Sitio Imelda in Tolosa village.

Galvez said the victims were about to go home after fishing at Bulag River in Tolosa village when the suspect, Joel Delos Reyes, a watershed security guard of Zamboanga City Water District, stopped and allegedly shot them with a shotgun.

She said the victims sustained gunshot wounds and were rushed to the Mindanao Central Sanitarium and General Hospital for treatment while the fled the scene after the incident. (SunStar Zamboanga)

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