BACOLOD CITY – Three suspected “salvage” or summary execution victims were found in Talisay City, Negros Occidental on Monday, Aug. 11. Police Brig. Gen. Arnold Thomas Ibay, Police Regional Office–Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) chief, expressed concern over the gruesome discovery. A Special...
ILOILO CITY – Murdered Vice Mayor Julio M. Estolloso of Ibajay town, Aklan province was a beloved teacher and school principal. His death in the hands of Municipal Councilor Mihrel Senatin devastated students, faculty, and alumni of Melchor Memorial School Inc. “He was a dedicated educator who...
COTABATO CITY – Three Moro fighters were killed and three others were wounded after warring Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) factions clashed in Shariff Saydona Mustapha, Maguindanao del Sur, police said Monday. The encounter on Sunday morning involved the groups of commanders Malibuteng and...
COTABATO CITY – Police in Lanao del Sur have deployed plainclothes and uniformed personnel near the lone public tertiary school in Balabagan town following the Aug. 4 killing of a school teacher. In a radio interview on Monday, Lanao del Sur police director police Col. Caezar Cabuhat said he...
BACOLOD CITY – The body of a 19-year-old aeronautics student from Barangay Alangilan here was found on Sunday morning, Aug. 10, in a sugarcane field in Barangay Salvacion, Murcia, Negros Occidental. Police Capt. Honey Labaro, Murcia police chief, said the victim was discovered around 5:30 a.m....
BACOLOD CITY – A 10-year-old boy drowned on a river in Barangay 1, Isabela town, Negros Occidental province on Saturday afternoon, Aug. 9. Police said the victim, a resident of Barangay 4, Isabela town, was swimming with two minor friends when he accidentally ventured into a deep part of the...
SARIAYA, Quezon – A 46-year-old caretaker was shot dead during a drinking spree with friends in a house in Sitio Pulo, Barangay Manggalang 1, this town, on Friday night, Aug. 8. Police identified the victim as Armando. Armando was having a drinking session with friends when an unidentified man...
SAN PABLO CITY, Laguna - An 11-month-old baby girl was shot dead while her mother and grandmother were wounded in an eatery in Barangay Gregorio, this city, on Friday night, Aug. 8. Police identified the fatality as baby Catherine, and injured were Rhea, 30, vendor, and Mercelita, 56, widow....
CABANATUAN CITY, Nueva Ecija – A minor who shot and wounded a student then turned the gun on himself inside a classroom in Barangay Rizal, Santa Rosa, Nueva Ecija on Thursday, Aug. 7, died on Friday, Aug. 8. Police Capt. Noime Gogotano, Nueva Ecija police information officer, said suspect Leo...
TACLOBAN CITY – A barangay chairman in Motiong, Samar was arrested after hiding for nine years for the murder of two soldiers in 2016. The suspect was identified as Antonio Gabane, 64, chairman of Barangay Saraw. Gabane was apprehended on warrants for two counts of murder and two counts of...
CABANATUAN CITY – A shooting incident involving two teenagers inside a classroom at the Santa Rosa Integrated School (SRIS) in Barangay Rizal here on Thursday is a reminder of the importance of stronger school safety measures, police said Friday. Police Col. Heryl Bruno, Nueva Ecija Police...
ILOILO CITY – The killing of Vice Mayor Julio M. Estolloso by Sangguniang Bayan (SB) member Mihrel Senatin in Ibajay town, Aklan province was complete shock as the two are political allies. Police Major Rajiv Salbino, chief of the Ibajay Municipal Police Station, said that politics is unlikely...
