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Published July 4, 2021, 2:15 PM
LAOAC, Pangasinan – A barangay chairman was gunned down while riding a motorcycle driven by his 15-year-old son on Don Jaramillo St. in Barangay Talogtog here Saturday, July 3.
Eleseo Eslao, 54, chairman of Barangay Talogtog, was riding his Kawasaki Rouser 135 motorcycle (SR1384) driven by his son Mark Laurence at about 4:30 p.m. when two unidentified motorcycle-riding men followed them.
Initial report from the police here showed that the victim was shot three times.
He was taken to the Urdaneta Sacred Heart Hospital in this province but was declared dead on arrival. His son was unharmed.
All police stations in this town have set up checkpoints for possible arrest of the suspects.