DINGRAS municipal hall. (Google Maps)
LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte – A lady project engineer was gunned down on Friday night in Sitio Nagmarcaan, Barangay San Marcelino, Dingras, this province.
Police Major Norman Pentang, Dingras police chief, said a resident discovered the victim Daisy with bullet wounds in her van that fell in a canal on the barangay road leading to her residence at about 8 p.m.
She was taken to a hospital where she died while undergoing treatment before dawn Saturday.
Pentang said the victim was on her way home after visiting her business in Solsona town, Ilocos Norte when she was shot.
Police recovered five empty caliber .45 shells in the crime scene.
Pentang clarified that the victim is a project engineer of a construction firm, not a contractor as reported online.
Follow-up investigation is ongoing.