MANILA – A 44-year-old Scottish man who flew to Cebu City this weekend to wed a Filipina was shot and seriously wounded by three robbers on a motorcycle just hours before the wedding, BBC News has reported.
The victim, identified as Tarek Naggar, was standing with his fiancee, identified only as Angie, outside a convenience store when a motorbike with the three men pulled up.
Naggar refused to give his wallet, prompting one of the men to pull out a gun and shoot him in the chest. Naggar’s best man Chris McLaughlin quoted a surgeon as saying the bullet pierced the right side of the victim’s body but ricocheted and travelled to the left lung. “Miraculously it didn’t go through his heart, it actually went behind his heart.
Naggar, who is from Milngavie in East Dunbartonshire, had recently had been working in Sweden, and was due to get married this weekend to his fiancée, who is from the Philippines, said the report in BBC.com.
McLaughlin had also flown out to Cebu for the wedding, bringing his friend a kilt. He was near the couple when the robbers attacked.
An ambulance was called, said the BBC quoting McLaughlin, but failed to show up and Naggar had to be brought to hospital on a rickshaw.