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Farmers’ group leader shot dead

Gilbert Bayoran - The Philippine Star
January 22, 2017 | 12:00am

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines – A leader of a farmers’ group was killed in Negros Occidental on Friday night.

Alexander Ceballos, 54, of the National Federation of Sugarcane Workers, was in front of his house in Purok Tangke, Barangay Pandanon Silos in Murcia town when men wearing bonnets opened fire.

Ceballos was declared dead on arrival at the Bacolod Adventist Hospital in this city.

An investigation is ongoing.          

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