JOMALIG, Quezon -- A 24-year-old Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) chairman was electrocuted to death on Sunday morning, Oct. 5, in Barangay Bukal, here. The victim Ramnel, single, was attempting to remove a light bulb at the basketball covered court when he was electrocuted. He fell to the ground and...
BACOLOD CITY – Two persons were killed and six others were injured when their van rammed a parked dump truck in Barangay Guimbalaon, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Sunday, Oct. 5. The fatalities were identified as Gino, 24, of Barangay Guimbalaon; and Jerry, 23, of La Carlota City, Negros...
COTABATO CITY – Police have identified one of the two gunmen who ambushed and killed a Sangguniang Kabataan chairman and his brother over the weekend in the commercial district here. “The PNP has identified and is actively investigating a person of interest who may have a direct link to the...
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – A businessman was allegedly beaten to death by three brothers in Barangay Magtaquing, Bugallon, Pangasinan Saturday night. Police identified the suspects as Robin, Rubie, and Leo. Initial investigation said a neighbor and the victim Alfredo were having conversation at the...
COTABATO CITY – A Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) chairman here was killed while his brother was wounded in an ambush in this city’s busy thoroughfare on Saturday morning. Police Brig. Gen. Jansen de Guzman, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) police chief, was at the crime scene,...
ALAMINOS, Laguna – A 55-year-old barangay councilor was gunned down inside his sari-sari store in Barangay 4 here on Thursday night. Police said the victim, Darwin Tolentino, was tending to his store when two men appeared. One of them disembarked and shot him. The suspects fled on board a...
DAVAO CITY – An Indigenous Peoples leader in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) have urged a deeper probe on the recent murder of a former barangay official in Datu Hoffer, Maguindanao del Sur. Timuay Labi Leticio Datuwata, the Supreme Tribal Chieftain of the Timuay...
COTABATO CITY – Lawyer Pangalian Balindong, speaker of the 80-member Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA), died around 1 a.m. Thursday in a hospital in Makati City due to illness. The BTA is the provisional lawmaking body of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Balindong,...
LUCENA CITY, Quezon – A 75-year-old man and a vendor were shot dead in Sariaya and Buenavista towns, this province, on Tuesday, Sept. 30. Police identified the victims as Doming, 75, of Buenavista, and Dante, 54, of Sariaya. Investigation said Doming was walking home when a man appeared and shot...
BACOLOD CITY – A 10-year-old girl was raped and killed in Sitio Pinasagan, Barangay Linantuyan, Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental on Tuesday, Sept. 30. The Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) led by Police Brig. Gen. Arnold Thomas Ibay condemned the crime and stressed that...
SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao del Sur – Police in Maguindanao del Sur are pursuing an armed group that allegedly decapitated a tribal leader in a remote barangay in Datu Hoffer Ampatuan town, this province, on Tuesday afternoon. In an interview with reporters on Wednesday, Police Col. Sultan Salman...
KORONADAL CITY – A suspected member of the Dawlah Islamiyah terrorist group was killed after resisting arrest during the serving of six warrants in Maguindanao del Sur on Monday afternoon. Police Capt. Joel Lebrilla, Rajah Buayan police chief, identified the fatality as Moner Usman, a resident of...
