Batangas OFW shot dead by riding-in-tandem
LUCENA CITY — A 53-year-old overseas Filipina worker (OFW) was shot and killed on Monday, July 15, by riding-in-tandem gunmen in Lobo town in Batangas province.
Lorna Babao, single, was on her way home at 11:23 a.m. aboard a tricycle with her mother when the gunmen, who were riding a motorcycle, appeared and repeatedly shot her using a caliber .45 pistol in Barangay Balatbat, the Region 4A police said in a report on Tuesday, July 16.
The assailants sped off after the shooting.
Babao, a resident of Balatbat, suffered a fatal gunshot wound on her nape and died on the way to the Lobo Municipal Hospital.
Her mother and the tricycle driver were left unharmed.
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