BACOLOD CITY – A two-year-old boy died after he fell into a water well in Hacienda Ledesma, Barangay Matab-ang, Talisay City, Negros Occidental on Monday, May 1. The name of the minor victim was withheld. A POLICE officer points to a water well in Barangay Matab-ang, Talisay City, Negros...
CAUAYAN CITY, Isabela – A man drowned while taking a bath in the Magat River in Barangay Bagong Silang, San Mateo, Isabela on Sunday, April 30. Police identified the victim as Moises Dumlao, 36, of Barangay Bagong Silang. Investigation said the victim decided to take a bath in the river after a...
TACLOBAN CITY – A nurse-turned-lawyer of the Bureau of Fire Protection was hailed a hero for reviving a five-year-old boy through cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after he drowned in a resort in Macrohon, Southern Leyte recently. TAN (Photo via Marie Marticio) Earnswell Pacina Tan was...
CAVITE – An unidentified man was found dead along the riverbank in Barangay Palangue Central in the Municipality of Naic on Monday, April 24. According to the daily crime incidents and operations report by the Cavite Police Provincial Office (PPO), the man was around 30 to 35 years old and...
BACOLOD CITY – A nine-year-old boy drowned in a river in Barangay Daga, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Sunday, April 23. A FATHER looks at his nine-year-old son who drowned in a river in Barangay Daga, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Sunday, April 23. (Photo courtesy of Cadiz City Police...
CAMP MELCHOR F. DELA CRUZ, Isabela – A soldier drowned on a river while on a mission against the New People’s Army in Gattaran, Cagayan on Thursday, April 20. Major Rigor Pamittan, spokesperson of the Army 5th Infantry Division, identified the victim as Private Raymund Mones, 23, of Barangay...
LOBO, Batangas – A 63-year-old man reportedly drowned while swimming in the sea of Barangay Masaguitsit in this town. Police identified the victim as Nestor Perez, a resident of Barangay Dagatan here. Perez’s body was seen by his relatives floating in the shallow portion of the sea at 12:45 a.m....
CEBU CITY – Two 12-year-old Grade 6 students drowned while swimming in a pond in Barangay Basak, Lapu-Lapu City on Thursday afternoon, April 20. ONLOOKERS gather around the pond where two young girls drowned while swimming on Thursday afternoon, April 20, in Barangay Basak, Lapu-Lapu City. (Photo...
CEBU CITY – A 67-year-old American national drowned while diving off Malapascua Island in Daanbantayan town, northern Cebu on Friday, April 21. Police identified the fatality as Mark Alan Shea, who was temporarily living in Barangay Logon, Malapascua. Police said the victim was recorded at...
BACOLOD CITY – Two friends died after they were suffocated and eventually drowned in a well one of the two tried to clean at Sitio Syding, Barangay Minapasuk, Calatrava, Negros Occidental on Saturday, April 15. RESIDENTS check the well in Barangay Minapasuk, Calatrava, Negros Occidental, where two...
KABACAN, North Cotabato (PNA) – Two youngsters drowned while seven others were rescued after they swam on a river dam here on Thursday afternoon, April 13. THE river dam in Barangay Kilada, Matalam, North Cotabato where two students drowned on Thursday, April 13. (Kabacan LGU FB) Two others were...
(Unsplash) Senator Sherwin Gatchalian has reiterated his proposal to assign a lifeguard in every public swimming pool or any bathing facility in the country. Gatchalian stressed this following a series of drowning incidents that killed more than 70 this summer. Under Senate Bill (SB) No. 1142, or...
