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(Eagle News) — Senate President Koko Pimentel on Sunday urged the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. to come out with a program for “casino gambling addicts” and for those “whose lives have been destroyed by casino gambling.” Pimentel made the suggestion after the police revealed that the gunman in the Resorts World Manila attack early Friday was heavily indebted as a result of his gambling activities. The police said the gambling addiction of Jessie Carlos, […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines on Sunday condemned the Saturday attack in London that left seven people killed, as it assured its citizens it was “closely monitoring” the situation there. “The Philippines strongly condemns the appalling attacks in London and conveys its deepest sympathies to the families and loved ones of those who perished and those who were injured,” the Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. According to the DFA, the attacks were “evidently […]
(Eagle News) — Police on Sunday identified the gunman in the Resorts World Manila attack that left more than 30 dead on Friday. National Capital Region Police Office chief Oscar Albayalde said Jessie Carlos, 42, was identified by his kin based on the footage recovered from the closed-circuit television camera in the establishment. Carlos, a Filipino, is a former Department of Finance employee, a tax specialist, assigned to a One Stop Shop Tax Credit and […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday echoed the police and military stataments on the Resorts World Manila attack on Friday, saying it was not done by the Islamic State. “I know that is not ISIS..That is not the work of ISIS,” he told the media during a visit of wounded soldiers in Camp Evangelista Station Hospital in Cagayan de Oro. President Duterte issued the statement after ISIs claimed responsibility for the assault that […]
(Eagle News) — Police and hotel authorities on Saturday released for the first time footage of the actions of the gunman prior and during Friday’s hotel attack, which appeared to corroborate their earlier statements that the incident was not a terrorist attack. The footage–which was released after Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said he believed the incident was an act of terrorism—showed how the gunman reached the establishment on board a taxi. National Capital Region Police Office […]
At least 70 people were rescued Saturday by government forces in Marawi City — including 23 teachers from Dansalan College, who were with a year-old baby, seven other children, and seven other adults — as intense fighting continued on its second week between the Islamist militants and government troopers. But as many as 2,000 people also remained trapped in desperate conditions in these areas, the government said, likely without food and water and with some […]
(Eagle News) — Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Saturday said the Resorts World Manila attack that left more than 30 people dead should serve as a “wake-up call” for the police and the military, who should not allow it to “instill fear in the citizenry.” This as Alvarez expressed his opinion the incident early Friday was a “clear example of a lone wolf terrorist attack targeting civilians to inflict maximum loss of lives and damage to […]
(Eagle News) — Senate President Koko Pimentel called out the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation and the management of Resorts World Manila following the attack in a casino there that left more than 30 people dead. “Do you only concern yourselves with gambling operations of these private casinos and you don’t anymore concern yourselves with security arrangements and physical matters like the fire safety of the establishment you allow casinos in?” he asked Pagcor, which […]
(Eagle News) — The gunman who barged inside Resorts World Manila and set things on fire while trying to steal casino chips used a taxi, not a private car, to get there. National Capital Region Police Office Chief Oscar Albayalde revealed this in a radio interview on Saturday. “Nakuha sa (closed-circuit television) na siya ay pumunta doon through a taxi,” he said. He said the car police initially believed to be the suspect’s turned out […]
(Eagle News) — Police are now banking on the car the gunman in the Resorts World Manila attack used to identify him, this after the man they initially reported to be a “person of interest” was cleared. “The owner of the car (we initially thought was used by the gunman) is a known personality, and people vouched for him. The car is really not registered to the perpetrator,” National Capital Region Police Office Chief Oscar Albayalde said in a television […]
(Eagle News)– Brigadier General Restituto Padilla, spokesman for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), clarified on Friday that 10, not 11 soldiers, were killed in a bungled airstrike in Marawi City on Wednesday that hit government troops, instead of the targeted Maute rebels. Padilla said that the earlier figure announced by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana that there were 10 soldiers killed in the airstrike was correct. Padilla clarified that one fallen soldier was killed in a […]
Umapela ang Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) sa publiko na huwag nang magpakalat ng mga nakaaalarmang mensahe o fake news kasunod ng nangyaring pag-atake sa Resorts World Manila, kaninang madaling araw, Hunyo 2 . Ayon kay AFP Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla, dapat maging responsable ang mga social media user at huwag nang magpakalat ng mga nakakaalarmang mensahe na maglilikha ng overreaction sa panig ng publiko. “Generally, a lot of quarters overreact to situations […]
