2 dead in QC shooting

MANILA, Philippines - A jeepney driver and an out-of-school teenager were shot dead in Quezon City Thursday night.

Ruben Reguya Jr., 33, and Adrian Villones, 15, died while being treated at a hospital due to gunshot wounds all over the body from the attack.

The victims were in Reguya’s jeepney, parked along General Avenue in Barangay Bahay Toro, chatting with an unidentified woman. A few minutes after the woman left at past 8 p.m., two unidentified men on a motorcycle approached the victims and the man riding behind the driver repeatedly shot them, Senior Police Officer 1 Cristituto Zaldarriaga said.

The gunman and his accomplice sped away after the attack, he said.