TACLOBAN CITY — A barangay chairman was gunned down on Sunday in Purok 7, Barangay Nijaga, Calbayog City. Police identified the victim as Rogelio Salvame, 50, of Barangay Guinbaoyan Norte, Calbayog City. Police Lt. Col. Dinvir Revita, Calbayog City police chief, said Salvame and his 34-year-old...
LUCENA CITY, Quezon – Two toddlers were killed in a fire that destroyed their house in Purok 5, Barangay Dalahican, this city, on All Saints’ Day. Police identified the victims as Francis, one-year-old, and brother Vladimir, two. The fire broke out at the house owned by their auntie Joyce, 26,...
BACOLOD CITY – Negros Occidental third district Rep. Javier Miguel Benitez on Saturday asked the Philippine National Police and Department of Justice to thoroughly investigate the brutal killing of a 42-year-old single mother from Victorias City, Negros Occidental. “I am calling for a full and...
BACOLOD CITY – A police officer assigned to the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) surrendered on Saturday, Nov. 1, leading to the discovery of the body of a missing 42-year-old single mother in Barangay Don Jorge Araneta, Bago City, Negros Occidental. The suspect, with a rank of police staff...
CEBU CITY – Police Capt. Joel Hernan Deiparine had promised to give his wife a belated birth anniversary treat. The agreed day came and went. No celebration. No party. What ensued was a tragedy that the policeman’s wife still couldn’t accept. Deiparine’s wife, who asked not be named, said...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A Philippine National Police-Special Action Forces trooper and three suspected gun runners were killed in a shootout in Sitio Talatak, Barangay Bato Bato, Indanan town, Sulu province on Thursday, Oct. 30. A well-known figure, Alnaib Sahiddan Daud, alias General, was killed along...
CEBU CITY – The relatives of the suspects in the killing of a police captain are calling for a fair investigation. Leonardo Manto Jr. and Johnrey Manto were taken into custody by the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) after they surrendered days after the killing on Saturday night, Oct. 25, in Sudlon...
BACOLOD CITY – Police are investigating the disappearance of a woman after her car was discovered abandoned with bloodstains in Sitio So-ol, Barangay Gargato, Hinigaran, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Oct. 29. The 42-year-old woman, a single mother, has a 10-year-old child, and a resident of...
PAGALUNGAN, Maguindanao del Sur – Police are hunting two men on a motorcycle who shot and killed a municipal government worker here Wednesday afternoon. The Pagalungan Municipal Police identified the victim as Christopher Malingco, a job order worker at the Pagalungan Civil Registrar’s Office...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – Police on Tuesday arrested the suspect in the fatal shooting of two women in Barangay San Roque, Tabaco City, Albay province. Police Lt. Col. Malu Calubaquib, spokesperson for the Police Regional Office-5, identified the suspect as Lui, 43. Lui, who was apprehended in the...
BONTOC, Mountain Province – The fifth and last victim of the truck that plunged into the Chico River in Barangay Tocucan here has been found. The body of Edmund Magaway Romeo, 22, of San Nicolas, Pangasinan, was recovered at 4:38 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 29. The four other victims – Carlo...
BACOLOD CITY – The brother of 17-year-old Freya Go vowed justice for her sister, who was laid to rest on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at the Valley of Peace in Barangay Mandalagan here, a week after she was found dead in Barangay 12, this city on Oct. 22. “We will not stop until justice is duly...
