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SELF-confessed drug lord and mayoral candidate Kerwin Espinosa on Thursday was injured in a gun attack in Albuera, Leyte.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Espinosa, who is running for mayor of Albuera town, was on a campaign trail when shot around 4:30 p.m. at the Albuera Gymnasium in Bgy. Tinag-an.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Espinosa was waiting to speak before a crowd of supporters when shot by an unidentified gunman hiding in the ceiling above the stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He was rushed to Ormoc Doctors Hospital, where he is currently recuperating.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A minor named Aira and a sibling of Espinosa were also hit in the attack and were undergoing treatment.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Espinosa’s running mate, vice mayoralty candidate Mariel Espinosa Marinay who was also present in the event, was unharmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Personnel of the Albuera Municipal Police Station (MPS) and SWAT teams imediately launched a hot pursuit operation, setting up roadblocks to apprehend the suspect.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n To recall, Espinosa’s father, former Albuera mayor Rolando, was killed after allegedly fighting it out against cops during a search operation inside his detention cell at the Baybay sub provincial jail in November 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kerwin Espinosa is running under the Bando Espinosa-Pundok Kausaban (BE-PK) political party,<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SELF-confessed drug lord and mayoral candidate Kerwin Espinosa on Thursday was injured in a gun attack in Albuera, Leyte. Espinosa, who is running for mayor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13119,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13111\/revisions\/13119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}