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SWAT member in Laguna dead in gun accident

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LUCENA CITY — A member of the elite Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) police team in San Pablo City, Laguna died Thursday, Nov. 24, after a colleague’s gun accidentally fired and hit him.

A spot report from San Pablo police said Police Corporal Fhrank Aldene Dela Cruz, 30, and fellow SWAT members were checking on their firearms at the village hall in Barangay 1-B around 8:30 a.m.

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“They were cleaning their guns for inspection [at the time of the incident],” Police Staff Sergeant George Maramag, the case investigator, said in a phone interview.

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The report said another cop approached Police Corporal George Mervin Duran, 31, and told him that their service firearms had been switched.

Duran examined his gun, a .9 mm pistol, and removed its magazine.

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When Duran was about to check on the gun’s chamber to see if there was still a bullet inside, the report said the firearm went off and hit Dela Cruz in his chest.

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Duran, fellow policemen, and village watchmen rushed Dela Cruz to the Community General Hospital of San Pablo, but he was pronounced dead on arrival.

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Maramag said Duran was placed under police custody. INQ

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