A mother and two children were rescued by members of the Manila Police District (MPD) from a hostage-taker at the corner of Herbosa and Franco Streets in Tondo, Manila on Friday evening, Jan. 6. A man named Terry surrenders to the police after he released three hostages, a mother and two children,...
MANAOAG, Pangasinan -- A man was put into jail after he injured his live-in partner during a 30-minute hostage-taking drama inside a comfort room at Barangay Pugaro this town Thursday. Suspect Alfie Barlaan, 40, single, and a resident of Zamora St., Brgy. Poblacion, Manaoag, Pangasinan was a former...
COREYVILLE, United States – All four people taken hostage in a more than 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue have been freed unharmed, police said late Saturday, and their suspected captor is dead. The siege in the small Texas town of Colleyville -- in which the suspect was apparently...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered the Caloocan City Police to help in the contact-tracing efforts of the Local Government Unit (LGU) after the recent hostage-taking incident in the area turned into a super spreader event as kibitzers swarmed the...
The Department of the Interior and Government (DILG) ordered Monday, Aug. 30, to conduct an intensified contact tracing of on-lookers which flocked the scene during a recent hostage taking incident in Caloocan City as fears of massive infection of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was raised....
The death toll in a botched escape plan of inmates at the Marikina City Jail has increased to three after a jail guard succumbed to serious body injuries, the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) said Friday, Aug. 27. Major Xavier Solda, spokesperson of the Bureau of Jail Management and...
