A missing 15-year-old Grade 9 student was found dead and beheaded in Valencia City, Bukidnon on Thursday, Jan. 8. Police identified the victim as Jennifer Encarnacion. Encarnacion was reported missing on Tuesday, Jan. 6, after she failed to return home from school. A search was conducted and her...
BACOLOD CITY – Police Brig. Gen. Arnold Thomas Ibay, Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) chief, said that two police officers were placed under restrictive custody and were disarmed over two shooting incidents where a woman and three lawmen were killed in Sibulan, Negros...
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office condemned the senseless act of violence that killed a police chief and two police personnel in Barangay Tubtubon, Sibulan, Negros Oriental on Friday, Jan. 9. A police response resulted in a shooting incident that killed Police Capt. Jose...
BACOLOD CITY - A police chief and three others were allegedly shot dead by a police officer in Barangay Tubtubon, Sibulan, Negros Oriental on Friday night, Jan. 9. Police Lt. Col. Joem Malong, spokesperson of the Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR), said the suspect, Police Staff...
SANTA MARIA, Ilocos Sur – A 53-year-old former barangay tanod or watchman was allegedly shot dead by his neighbor while tending to his crops in a farm in Barangay Gusing here on Thursday morning, Jan. 8. Police identified the victim as Gani. Initial investigation revealed that the victim was...
BACOLOD CITY – A 30-year-old laborer was gunned down by seven unidentified armed men in Sitio Mansiguibo, Barangay San Isidro, Toboso, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Jan.7. Police Capt. Rene Boy Eduardo, deputy chief of the Toboso Municipal Police Station, said the victim was at home when the...
Two brothers were found dead in Sitio Nagtupacan, Barangay Isit, Dolores, Abra, Thursday. The victims were identified as Andy, 29, and Jun, 25. Residents heard gunshots late Wednesday but did not immediately inform authorities. A passerby discovered the bodies with bullet wounds and alerted the...
COTABATO CITY – Police, backed by the 601st Infantry Brigade, have launched a manhunt against two gunmen who shot dead on Wednesday a barangay chairman and his cousin in Rajah Buayan, Maguindanao del Sur. “Manhunt is ongoing,” Police Lt. Col. Jopy Ventura, spokesperson for the Police Regional...
PAOAY, Ilocos Norte – A 40-year-old farmer who served as a bodyguard of a mayoral candidate in this town was killed in an ambush on Wednesday night, police said. The victim – Boy, a resident of Barangay 5, Nalasin – was driving his motorcycle near a gasoline station in Barangay 2, San Roque...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A 74-year-old man was shot dead in Mala, Barangay Panubigan, this city, on Wednesday, less than three days after the murder of a truck driver on the MCLL Highway on Sunday. The victim was identified as Hiya-Hiya Ibrahim Tahil, a resident of the area and a native of Jolo, Sulu....
NASUGBU, Batangas – A man was shot dead by a lone gunman in Barangay Arga here on Wednesday night. Police identified the victim as Benson. The victim was inside his car parked in front of his house when the suspect arrived and shot him. He sustained a bullet wound in the check and was taken to a...
LEGAZPI CITY – The Police Regional Office in Bicol (PRO-5) said Wednesday that the suspect in the killing of a woman whose body was allegedly stuffed in a megabox (storage box) and dumped from a bridge in Barangay Pinagwarasan, Basud, Camarines Norte, is now in police custody. The suspect, 35,...