CAMILING, Tarlac: Three members of the La Union provincial police were seriously wounded during a shootout last Monday with the leader of a gun-for-hire syndicate whom they were about to arrest.

Senior Supt. Westrimundo Obinque, police provincial director, identified the victims as Chief Insp. Bernard Pagaduan, chief of the provincial intelligence unit; Senior Insp. Juan Jhay Maggay, Tubao town chief of police; and Police Officer 2 Ryan Ponce, a member of the La Union Police Anti-Illegal Drug Group.

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