BALANGA City, Bataan – Police yesterday launched a manhunt for two gunmen who shot dead a former “asset.”

Provincial director Senior. Supt. Arnold D. Gunnacao identified the victim as Joseph dela Cruz alias Ka Bokol, of Wawa, Abucay town.

Investigators said the victim had just visited his daughter-in-law who gave birth at the Women’s hospital. He was about to board his car when two men wearing bonnets suddenly appeared and shot him at close range, killing him on the spot. The suspects casually left.

Police are looking at personal grudge and drugs as the possible motives for the victim’s killing.              Mamer Bañez