Indian money lender shot dead in Batangas

CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna, Philippines – A 53-year-old Indian national engaged in money lending was shot dead by two motorcycle-riding men in Nasugbu, Batangas on New Year’s Eve, police said.

PO3 Juneil John Castillo Hernandez, Nasugbu police investigator, said bystanders positively identified one of Kumar Kuldip’s attackers as a certain Jesus Vargas, 29, who is out on bail for robbery.

Vargas and his cohort are now being hunted by a police tracker team.

Hernandez said Kuldip was on his way to a junkshop on J.P. Laurel Street in Barangay Wawa, Nasugbu town when he was shot twice in the chest.