BACOLOD CITY -- A 60-year-old man died while his 17-year-old helper was injured after they were struck by a lightning in Purok Dalia, Barangay Puey, Sagay City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, July 26. The family of a minor talks to a police officer in a hospital, after the teenager was wounded due...
RESCUERS carry one of the four victims of a lightning strike in Barangay Manlucahoc, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental Friday, June 17. (Photo courtesy of Executive Assistant Dionilo Bogtae) BACOLOD CITY – A 20-year-old man died while three others, including two siblings, were injured in a...
MABINI, Pangasinan – A farmer was killed while six others were injured in a lightning strike in Sitio Sta. Rita, Barangay Nibaliw, here Sunday, June 12. Police identified the fatality as Marcelo Flores, 40, and the injured were Marvin Mendoza, 37; Richard Flores, 26; Eduardo Dizon Jr., 21;...
NEW DELHI, India -- At least 14 people were killed and many others injured after heavy rains, lightning and storms lashed India's northeastern state of Assam, officials said Sunday. "Eight people were killed on Friday and six deaths were reported on Saturday," said an official at Assam State...
CLAVERIA, Cagayan – A man who was holding a cellular phone died after being struck by lightning, while his companion was injured at Brgy. Centro 1 late Sunday afternoon here. Police Senior Master Sergeant (PSMS) Richie Roger Q. Hernandez, investigator-on-case, identified the fatality as...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng For a number of my friends, talking about their high school and university days is like giving them license to indulge in a rhapsodic reverie; some of them even describing those days past as the best time of their lives. While I...
