Scot is shot during robbery attempt
● Thieves demand money then gun down victim sitting outside a bar
A Scottish man has been shot on a Philippine island just days before his wedding.
Tarek Naggar, 44, is said to be critically injured and in intensive care after being attacked during a robbery on Cebu.
Mr Naggar – from Milngavie in East Dunbartonshire and recently living in Sweden – was gunned down while sitting outside a bar in the capital, Cebu City, in the early hours of Thursday with his fiancee Angie and best man Chris Mclaughlin, according to a Sunday newspaper.
Three men on a motor scooter were then said to have pulled up and demanded the Scot hand over his wallet. When he refused, one then pulled out a pistol and shot him in the chest. They also reportedly made off with the wallet, credit cards and the local money he was carrying, equivalent to less than £10.
Mr Mclaughlin said Mr Naggar, who was due to get married yesterday, received surgery and was put on a life-support machine after the bullet lodged in his lung.
Mr Naggar met his fiance Angie, a Filipino, in Cebu. The couple had planned to move to Thailand where she had secured a teaching job.
Mr Mclaughlin had arrived on the island just hours before the shooting.
He was speaking to a group of locals when three men pulled up alongside Mr Naggar on a motorbike, jumped off and demanded his wallet.
When Mr Naggar refused, one of the men pulled out a pistol and shot him in the chest.
Reports say an ambulance was called but did not turn up, leaving Mr Naggar bleeding on the ground. He was eventually put into a rickshaw and taken to hospital.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has been in touch with his next of kin and various authorities in the area.
An FCO spokeswoman said: “We are assisting a British national who was shot during a robbery in Cebu, Philippines, and are in touch with local authorities.”
“We are assisting a British national who was shot during a robbery in Cebu, Philippines, and are in touch with local authorities”
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