CANDELARIA, Quezon – A Grade 8 student and an 18-year-old vulcanizing shop employee were gunned down by two men in Barangay Poblacion here on Saturday, Oct. 8. Candelaria police chief Lt. Col. Dennis de Leon identified the victims as Jimber Villarin Perez and Alexander Taliente Perez,...
TACLOBAN CITY – A former vice mayor of Calbiga, Samar was gunned down on the national highway in Barangay Timbanagan, Calbiga on Friday, Oct. 7. POLICE interview witnesses after former Calbiga, Samar Vice Mayor Miguel Abaigar was shot dead on the national highway in Barangay Timbangan,...
NA KLANG, Thailand -- Weeping, grief-stricken families gathered Friday outside a Thai nursery where an ex-policeman murdered two dozen children in one of the kingdom's worst mass killings. The mother of a victim is comforted as she cries outside a nursery in Thailand's northeastern Nong Bua Lam Phu...
BACOLOD CITY - A traffic enforcer was gunned down in front a public high school in Barangay Alimango, Escalante City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Oct. 5. A traffic enforcer was killed in Barangay Alimango, Escalante City, Negros Occidental Wednesday, Oct. 5. (Photo courtesy of Escalante City...
The Philippine Embassy in Thailand has expressed its sympathies with the Thai people following the shooting incident at a day care center in Nongbua Lamphu province that killed at least 34 people. In a statement, the embassy said the Philippine government is “shocked and saddened by the...
ISABELA -- A policeman assigned to the Traffic Enforcement Unit died after he accidentally shot himself in their backyard in Agustin St., San Andres, Santiago City on Tuesday, Oct. 4. Belated report said the victim was identified as Master Sergeant Henry Ariola Esteban, 46, an active member of the...
CALASIAO, Pangasinan -- A woman was killed while her husband survived after they were shot by unidentified perpetrators along a diversion road in Brgy. Bued on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Photo from PNP Col. Jeff Fanged, officer-in-charge of Pangasinan Police Provincial Office, identified the victim as...
BACOLOD CITY – A satellite installer died while his companion was wounded in a shooting incident at the boundaries of Barangays Ilaya and Calampisawan in Calatrava, Negros Occidental on Sunday, Oct. 2. A POLICEMAN checks the area at the boundaries of Barangays Ilaya and Calampisawan in...
BANGUED, Abra – A barangay chairman was tagged as the mastermind in the killing of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) teacher Rudy Steward Dugmam Sayen, known as “Estee Saway,” 38, here on Sept. 28. Barangay Captain Armando Wilson of Barangay Dumagas, Boliney, Abra was...
GLAN, Sarangani – A 30-year-old man hacked his two-year-old son and four-year old niece dead and was gunned down by his cousin to stop his rampage in a remote barangay in Glan, Sarangani on Saturday, Oct. 1. Investigators said the suspect, Dewi Pondong, hacked his son, “Botyok,” and niece...
ILOILO CITY -- Another victim of the deadly shooting incident in northern Iloilo province last month was laid to rest on Sunday, Oct. 2, at the public cemetery in Sara town. The funeral mass for John Paul “JP” Bosque, one of the three killed in a shooting incident in northern Iloilo province...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Unidentified gunmen shot dead a former mayoral aspirant in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao supported by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) outside a mosque in Barangay Dalican, Datu Odin on Friday, Sept. 30. Mayor Lester Sinsuat of Datu Odin Sinsuat ordered the local...