A HUMAN rights activist Roman Catholic priest died while being treated in a hospital after motorcycle-riding gunmen shot him in Jaen, Nueva Ecija on Monday night.

Police said Father Marcelito Paez, 72, was on his way home driving his vehicle when assailants attacked him along the road in Barangay Lambakin at about 8 p.m. He died while being treated at Gonzales General Hospital in San Leonardo town also in Nueva Ecija.

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