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Anti-coal mining activist killed

MARIVELES, Bataan: An anti-coal mining activist here was gunned down on Friday night and her family is appealing to President Rodrigo Duterte to give her justice.

Two unidentified motorcycle gunmen fired gunshots to the victim Gloria Capitan, 57, president of the cause-oriented group Kilusang Pambansang Demokratiko (KPD) in Lucanin, Mariveles, Bataan, Philippine News Agency reported.

The victim’s husband Efren Capitan, 58, said his wife sustained three gunshot wounds from caliber .45 revolver, two in the neck and one in the arm.
He said one of his grandchildren, aboard a motorcycle, tried but failed to catch up with the gunmen who fled toward Balanga City on a motorcycle.

“To the new President, my wife had no known enemies,” he appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte that was cut short with sobs, reported PNA.

Their eight-year-old grandson suffered a scratch from stray bullet on the arm. The boy said he was seated on a plastic chair near the videoke when a man shot her grandmother, who was fixing the curtains of the videokehan.

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