Philippine police hunting killers of New Zealand tourist

Investigators at the site where New Zealander Nicholas Peter Stacey was shot by suspected robbers in Makati, Philippines on Feb 19, 2023. - AP

MANILA (AP): A Philippine police search was underway on Wednesday (Feb 22) for two motorcycle-riding men who shot and killed a New Zealand man in a brazen street robbery that officials fear could scare foreign tourists away.

The 34-year-old tourist, Nicholas Peter Stacey, was fatally shot once in the chest while trying to wrest a pistol from one of the two robbers who held him up and his Filipina girlfriend on Sunday in a suburban street in Manila’s Makati financial district, police Maj Gen Jonnel Estomo said.