<p><br /> A Filipino actor has been shot dead by a night watchman in the central Philippine city of Cebu while filming a scene for a British movie.<br /> </p><p><br /> Night watchman Eddie Cuizon claims he took actor Kirk Abella for a real gunman as he rode masked on a motorbike and armed with a plastic gun.<br /> </p><p><br /> Abella died later in the evening after having been taken to hospital.<br /> </p><p><br /> The dead actor had been filming one of the last takes of an armed robbery scene for a movie by British filmmaker Alan Lyddiard, who has filmed several of his projects in the Philippines.<br /> </p><p><br /> Local television reports described how Cuizon noticed Abella and thought he was a gunman speeding away on a dark road in the city's Pari-an area.<br /> </p><p><br /> He fired his gun at the fleeting figure in a bid to defend the community he was employed to protect.<br /> </p><p><br /> Local police had accompanied the film crew during the evening but were not in the exact vicinity where the shooting took place.<br /> </p><p><br /> Cuizon was arrested within hours of the shooting on grounds of breaching the country's gun laws.<br /> </p><p><br /> Sitting next to Abella's coffin in a funeral parlour, members of the the dead man's family told reporters that they will push for a murder trial and will not settle outside of court.<br /> </p><p><br /> The Philippines has one of the highest numbers of gun-related deaths per capita in Asia and the country has come under fire for having some of the most lax gun laws in the region.<br /> </p><p><br /> Millions of guns are in circulation within the country of over 90 million, and are increasingly viewed as symbols of authority and power.<br /> </p>
