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5 dead,ex-lawmaker
injured in ambush
BY JAIME G. AQUINO Manila where he met with his - Witnesses said the gunmen
son, Second District Rep. lumef*ore bonnets and had long
OUR bodyguards and the driver of Espino when attackdd. firearms.

F former Pangasinan Fifth District

representative Amado Espino fr.
were killed while the latter was injured
He and his bodyguards were

they were flagged down by armed

in an ambush in San Carlos City on
Wednesday.
Philippine National Police
Provincial Director Col. Redrico
Maranan said the former law-
makerwas on his lday home from
men in three vans. The attackers
then opened fire.
Espino sewed as the governor
traveling in two vehicles when of Pangasinan ftorn 2007 to 2016.
He lost his bid for a second term
as representative of the province's
fifth district in May 2019 when he
Espino sustained several gun- was defeated by Binalonan Mayor
shot wounds. He was rushed to Ramon Guico 3rd.
the Blessed Hospital in San Carlos He was included in the drug .
City where he was declared in matrix presented by PreSident '
stable condition. Rodrigo Duterte on Au g. 25 , 2016 .

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