Mayor Loot denies ambush was staged

DAANBANTAYAN MAYOR Vicente A. Loot denied insinuations that he staged his own ambush to gain public sympathy. “No one in his right mind would do such a thing,” Loot told The Freeman, pointing out that his grandchildren were with him during the incident. His five grandchildren who were with him during the attack were aged six months to 7 years old. He said that one of the three persons injured was a nanny, who at the time of the attack was holding his six-month-old grandchild, and was sitting beside him. Five unidentified armed men opened fire at Mr. Loot and his family as they were disembarking from a passenger boat at the New Maya wharf in Daanbantayan Sunday morning. The mayor said the three people injured, one nanny and two drivers, are like family to them. If it was staged, he said, there would have been no people injured. — >> See related story on Mayor in narco-list survives ambush