A 15-year-old girl who had been missing since Aug. 17 was found dead in a vacant lot in Goa, Camarines Sur, with initial forensic findings indicating she may have been strangled, police said. Police Col. Tyrone Dotimas, director of the Camarines Sur Police Provincial Office, told the Inquirer via Viber message on Sunday, Aug. 23, […]
Read MoreOperatives of Police Regional Office 6 (PRO6) arrested a drug suspect described as a “high-value individual” and seized around 150 grams of suspected meth, or shabu, during a buy-bust operation in Buyu-an village of Tigbauan town, Iloilo on Friday. Recovered during the operation were four transparent plastic sachets containing the suspected shabu, estimated to be […]
Read MoreInterior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla on Thursday ruled out any security lapse on the part of the elite Jesuit-run Ateneo de Zamboanga University (AdZU) that led to the deadly shooting on Tuesday, saying the shooter gained entry into the Junior High School campus through the emergency exit. Remulla went to the AdZU campus […]
Read MoreUnidentified gunmen shot dead a pandesal vendor in Datu Montawal, Maguindanao del Sur, on Monday morning, Aug. 17. The 10 a.m. gun attack occurred while an election gun ban was in effect in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) for next month’s historic parliamentary elections. Capt. Steffi Salanguit, Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region […]
Read MoreThe Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) arrested eight fishermen suspected of smuggling fuel in Tingloy, Batangas, on Saturday, Aug. 15. In a report, the PCG-Batangas Station said it received information about a fishing vessel that had been drifting about 30 meters from the shoreline of Barangay Makawayan, reportedly due to engine trouble. PCG personnel inspected the […]
Read MorePolice arrested two high-value drug suspects and seized an estimated P4.23 million worth of shabu in Barangay Busalian, Talibon, Bohol Friday afternoon. The operation was conducted at around 5:30 p.m. by operatives of the Philippine National Police – Drug Enforcement Group Special Operations Unit 7 (PNP DEG SOU7) and Talibon Municipal Police Station, in coordination […]
Read MoreTwo fishermen were killed and another was wounded after an improvised explosive device they were allegedly using for illegal fishing prematurely exploded in the waters off Dasol, Pangasinan on Saturday afternoon, August. 1. The fatalities and the survivor were identified as residents of Zambales province, according to the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office. Police said further […]
Read MoreAuthorities arrested a policeman and a businessman after intercepting a van loaded with nearly P1.9 million worth of smuggled cigarettes during a checkpoint operation in Barangay Gatas, Kalawit, Zamboanga del Norte late Friday night, July 31. Lt. Col. Edwin Verzon, force commander of the Zamboanga del Norte 2nd Provincial Mobile Force Company (ZNPMFC), said personnel […]
Read MoreThe Philippine National Police (PNP) vowed to pursue justice for teachers who were physically attacked in separate incidents in Aklan and Davao de Oro. “These incidents are deeply concerning,” PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. said in a statement on Friday. “Violence has no place in our schools or communities, and the PNP will […]
Read MoreA 29-year-old person with disability (PWD) was mauled by the father and godfather of a Grade 3 girl in Barangay Immaculate Concepcion, Quezon City, on Thursday morning, July 30, over his alleged harassment of the child. A video captured by a concerned citizen showed the man being cornered by two men along a roadside, where […]
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