Train kills boy

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy was killed when a passing train hit him in Gumaca, Quezon, on Wednesday, according to police yesterday.

PO2 Jason Zurbano identified the victim as Jerico Cruzat, a resident of Barangay Villa Padua, Gumaca.

Zurbano said a villager found the boy’s body lying on the railway track in Villa Padua past 4 a.m. on Wednesday.

Quoting the boy’s relatives, Zurbano said Cruzat was last seen sleeping in the balcony of of their house four meters from the railway track.

Zurbano said it wasn’t clear how Cruzat was hit by the Manila-bound train but he surmised that the boy could have stepped out of the house just as the train was passing and went too near the track.

Last week, a man was also killed when he was hit by a passing train in Pagbilao, Quezon. 51, was dead on the spot due to multiple bullet wounds while his wife Yolanda, 46, suffered a bullet wound in the abdomen.

The couple was leaving a village where they watched a softball game when they were attacked by the gunmen who were on board another motorcycle. THE HEAD of watchmen in a village in Batangas City was gunned down on Tuesday by still unidentified men.

Police yesterday said Efren Dimaunahan, 48, was sitting on his parked motorcycle in Barangay Sta. Rita Krusada when he was attacked.

Supt. Nicolas Torre III, Batangas City police chief, said Dimaunahan was shot with a .45 cal. pistol and an Armalite rifle. Dimaunahan died on arrival in a hospital near Barangay Sta. Rita.