LAOAC, Pangasinan – A 76-year-old man was arrested after he held a three-year-old boy hostage in Barangay Talogtog here on Tuesday.The suspect armed with a bladed weapon forcibly took the victim hostage while he was walking with his relative to the public market.Police immediately set up a crisis...
A hostage situation on Recto Avenue in Manila on Tuesday, Feb. 18, ended peacefully after police officers, who acted as negotiators, chipped in and gave the P20,000 salary that the hostage taker's employer allegedly refused to pay him.A man (in black T-shirt) took a woman hostage at an ID lace shop...
A 26-year-old father who is now detained after taking his one-year-old child hostage during a shocking standoff in Taytay, Rizal on Saturday, Jan. 25, is seeking forgiveness from his family.Authorities negotiate with a man who took a child hostage in Taytay, Rizal. (Photos from Mayor Allan De...
A one-year-old child was rescued by police after being taken hostage by her own father along C6 Road in Taytay, Rizal, on Saturday evening, Jan. 25.Authorities negotiate with a man who took a child hostage in Taytay, Rizal. The child is successfully rescued, and the man is now in police custody....
BACOLOD CITY – A 38-year-old man was arrested by the police after holding his family hostage inside his sister's house in Barangay Estefania here on Saturday afternoon, September 7.Police Capt. Francis Depasucat, head of Police Station 4, said the suspect, armed with two knives and a hammer,...
People block a road as they protest, calling for a deal for the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A rare call for a general strike in Israel to protest the failure to...
BACOLOD CITY – A 60-year-old farmer held his 51-year-old live-in partner hostage at gunpoint after she refused to sign documents for a land transfer in Barangay Prosperidad, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental on Saturday night, June 15.Police Lt. Col. Nazer Canja, San Carlos police chief, said the...
CEBU CITY – A distraught man was arrested after he held his family hostage on Monday morning, April 22, in Barangay Tisa here.Police said the 42-year-old suspect was armed with an aluminum pipe when he took his 39-year-old wife and their two children, aged 11 and six, hostage inside their...
President Marcos has canceled his scheduled trip to Dubai for the World Climate Action Summit (COP28) due to developments involving the 17 Filipino seafarers taken hostage in the Red Sea.President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Malacañang photo)Marcos made the announcement an hour before his...
MANGATAREM, Pangasinan – A lady dentist was rescued after she was held hostage by a security guard who was also arrested by the responding Philippine National Police personnel in Umisen Dental Clinic in Barangay Calvo in this town on Saturday, April 22.
In their report to the Pangasinan Police...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A man allegedly suffering from stress held a senior citizen hostage at the Zamboanga del Sur Medical Center in Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur on Friday, March 17.
A DEPRESSED man, Danny Alvaro, takes Saturnina Vergas hostage at the Zamboanga del Sur Medical Center in Dao,...
CAVITE – Authorities here arrested a man who allegedly held hostage his own three-year-old child amid a squabble with his wife in Silang on March 9.
In an interview with the Manila Bulletin on Tuesday, March 14, Patrolman Zeus Gabriel Belando and Corporal Ralph Jason Santos of Silang Municipal...
