A barangay (village) captain and a farmer were killed Tuesday night in two separate shooting incidents in Cavite, the Police Provincial Office said Wednesday.

The fatalities were identified as Barangay Chairman Reynaldo V. Domingo, 64, of 453 Padre Pio Street, Caridad, Cavite City, and farmer Rene Boy M. Aragon, 36, of Sitio Vicente Tulay-A, Maragondon town.

Police Officer 1 Nick Balberan, officer-on-case, said Domingo was shot was by a still unidentified motorcycle-riding man on Romualdo Street, Barangay 124, Caridad at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday. He succumbed to bullet wounds while being treated at the Dra. Salamanca Hospital in Cavite City.

The gunman, who wore a full-face helmet, fled aboard the motorcycle without license plates.

Police officials said the motive of the attack is still being established.

Aragon, on the other hand, was shot at close range by another farmer with a sumpak (improvised shotgun) in a rice field alley in Barangay Tulay-A, Maragondon, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

PO2 Primitivo Cañete, case investigator, said Aragon, his brother Ronnie and friend Gerry Lapid were walking along the rice field's pathway when he was shot by a neighbor, identified as Gerry Reyes, apparently over an old grudge. The gunman fled after the shooting.