BACOLOD CITY – A woman was run over by a truck while her husband was injured following a vehicular collision in Barangay Patic, Pulupandan, Negros Occidental, on Saturday, February 3. Police identified the fatality as Lilibeth Arandilla, 48, and the injured as her husband, Danilo, 46, of Barangay...
CALBAYOG CITY – Philippine National Police chief Police Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr. has ordered a manhunt against the Ampuan Criminal Group following an encounter on January 30 in Santa Margarita, Samar where three police officers were killed and four were wounded. READ:...
BACOLOD CITY – A woman was allegedly gunned down by her two nephews over a land dispute in a compound in Sitio Beranio, Barangay Lantad, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Thursday, February 1. POLICE look at the body of a woman allegedly shot dead by her two nephews over a land dispute in Barangay...
Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain have killed six people in Mindanao, with one other person missing, rescuers said on Thursday, February 1. RESIDENTS push a makeshift raft loaded with a motorcycle through flood waters brought about by heavy rains in Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur on...
CABUYAO CITY, Laguna – Four persons died in a fireworks factory explosion in Barangay Bigaa here on Thursday afternoon, February 1. Fatalities were identified as Marvin Lamela Ocom, 27; Bebot Reymundodia, 44; Ricardo Olic-Olic, 51, and John Ronald Gonzales Deduro, 23. Initial investigation...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Police Regional Office-8 has turned over cash assistance to the families of the three police officers slain in an encounter with a criminal gang in Santa Margarita, Samar on Tuesday, January 30. POLICE Regional Office-8 chief Police Brig. Gen. Reynaldo Pawid turns over...
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – A water taxi carrying five foreign passengers collided with a fast craft vessel in the sea between Batangas and Mindoro, killing the taxi boat’s captain and one crew member on Wednesday, January 31. MV Ocean Jet 6 (Jerry Alcayde) Reports from the Philippine...
BIÑAN CITY, Laguna – A 48-year-old mechanic died after he was crushed by the crop shear machine of a steel manufacturing company in Barangay Tubigan here on Tuesday afternoon, January 30. Police said the victim, Dionel Atienza, of Barangay Canlalay, this city, had just finished repairing...
BACOLOD CITY – Two women on their way to attend the 50th Dinagsa Festival in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental were killed after their motorcycle hit a center island on the access road in Barangay Cabahug, Cadiz City, on Sunday, January 28. RESCUERS assist two women who figured in a motorcycle...
CAMP FLORENDO, La Union – Two persons were killed and five others were injured in road accidents in Pangasinan on Monday, January 29. MAP of Santa Barbara, Pangasinan. Police said that Jammel Amistad, 27, of Barangay Minien West, Santa Barbara, Pangasinan, died after the motorcycle he was...
TACLOBAN CITY – Seven suspected members of a criminal gang were arrested following an encounter in which three policemen were killed and four others were wounded on Tuesday, January 30, in Barangay Mahayag, Santa Margarita, Samar. POLICE stand guard over suspected members of a criminal gang who...
BACOLOD CITY – An 18-year-old man was allegedly mauled and stabbed dead by four persons in a public market in Barangay Zone 3, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Monday, January 29. AN 18-year-old boy died after he was mauled by three minors and stabbed by an adult in a commotion triggered by...