Tawi2
23rd July 2017, 16:37
:anerikke: I say sort of as he has an Islamic name, lives in Sweden, but is described as a British national who is going to live in thailand :Erm:
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/scottish-man-shot-just-hours-before-he-was-due-to-wed-on-philippines-island/ar-AAoEUxK?li=AAmiR2Z&ocid=spartanntp
Scottish man shot just hours before he was due to wed on Philippines island
A Scottish man.has been critically wounded after being shot and mugged just hours before he was due to wed his fiancée in the Philippines.
Tarek Naggar, 44, from Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, was reportedly fired at in the early hours of Thursday, 20 July by a gang of men on a motor scooter who made off with his wallet as he was having a drink with partner Angie.
The couple met in Sweden, where Tarek is currently living, and were planning to relocate to Thailand where fiancée Angie had secured a job teaching English, the Sunday Herald reports.
Tarek's best man Chris McLaughlin, from Bearsden, is understood to have been with the couple at the time of the incident and claims two of the men on the scooter demanded Tarek's wallet before pulling out a pistol and blasting him in the chest.
He is now being treated at a local hospital but the extent of his injuries has not been revealed.
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A Foreign Office spokeswoman told the Daily Record: "We are assisting a British national who was shot during a robbery in Cebu, Philippines, and are in touch with local authorities."
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/scottish-man-shot-just-hours-before-he-was-due-to-wed-on-philippines-island/ar-AAoEUxK?li=AAmiR2Z&ocid=spartanntp
Scottish man shot just hours before he was due to wed on Philippines island
A Scottish man.has been critically wounded after being shot and mugged just hours before he was due to wed his fiancée in the Philippines.
Tarek Naggar, 44, from Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, was reportedly fired at in the early hours of Thursday, 20 July by a gang of men on a motor scooter who made off with his wallet as he was having a drink with partner Angie.
The couple met in Sweden, where Tarek is currently living, and were planning to relocate to Thailand where fiancée Angie had secured a job teaching English, the Sunday Herald reports.
Tarek's best man Chris McLaughlin, from Bearsden, is understood to have been with the couple at the time of the incident and claims two of the men on the scooter demanded Tarek's wallet before pulling out a pistol and blasting him in the chest.
He is now being treated at a local hospital but the extent of his injuries has not been revealed.
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A Foreign Office spokeswoman told the Daily Record: "We are assisting a British national who was shot during a robbery in Cebu, Philippines, and are in touch with local authorities."