Shoot-out in Bonao

Eddy

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Anybody got an update on what happened. I heard several dead and seriously wounded
 

juanita

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Politician shooting each other, 4 dead.

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rellosk

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This was reported in todays DR1 news:

Piedra Blanca is a small town on the highway leading from Santo Domingo to Bonao. For most people it is best known for being the crossroads for Cotui and San Francisco de Macoris. In spite of this, a dispute over choosing the local municipal council leader led to a shoot out that resulted in four deaths and as many as 12 wounded. The face off between members of the PLD and PRD parties was, according to Listin Diario, over which party was going to obtain the head council seat. The paper reports that an agreement previously signed by the different parties allowed for a PLD council member to preside, but before the actual voting and swearing in ceremony could begin, shots were fired. Hoy newspaper identifies the dead as council members Gerardo Antonio Nunez and Jose Pujols, both of the PRD, and brothers Eddy and Domingo Marte, who were PLD activists. The Bonao district attorney, Isidro Fabian, reported 12 wounded, including Francisco Contreras, the mayor of Piedra Blanca. It seems that Gerardo Nunez, who had been kicked out of the PLD party, had been sworn in as a PRD member last Thursday, and the agreement involved supporting his candidacy for the top spot in the municipal council. The shooting started shortly after ten in the morning, with people reporting pistol and shotgun blasts as well as Molotov cocktails and other homemade explosives. The district attorney and the police are still trying to unravel the sequence of events.