Tag: ambush

Criminal raps to be filed vs suspects in San Fernando, Cebu Mayor Reluya ambush

(Eagle News) – Criminal charges are slated to be filed against a former village councilor and another for their alleged roles in the ambush of San Fernando, Cebu Mayor Lakambini Reluya. To be charged with murder and attempted murder were Jerome Labitad and former Maghaway, Talisay City village councilor Felix Abacajan Jr. The two are still at large. Reluya and several others were on board a vehicle in Talisay when they were ambushed by unidentified men on […]

QC barangay chair, three others killed in ambush

(Eagle News) — A Quezon City barangay chair who had plans of running for a seat in the House of Representatives in May was shot dead on Wednesday, Jan. 30. According to Supt. Joel Villanueva, station 6 commander, apart from Crisell Beltran of Barangay Bagong Silangan, three others were killed after four men on board motorcycles shot at the vehicle the group was riding around 11:30 a.m. Beltran was rushed to the Far Eastern University […]

San Fernando, Cebu mayor wounded in ambush in Talisay

Three bodyguards killed, two other companions injured (Eagle News)—Three people were killed after San Fernando Mayor Lakambini Reluya’s  vehicle was ambushed in Talisay, Cebu on Tuesday, Jan. 22. According to the police, the three fatalities were bodyguards of Reluya, who survived the ambush in Barangay Linao, Talisay City, around 6 p.m. but was wounded. Two of Reluya’s companions  were also injured. They have not yet been identified. The ambush took place after San Fernando Councilor […]

Guevarra to NBI: Probe killing of former Cebu prosecutor

(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Friday, Jan. 18, ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to probe the killing of former Cebu City Assistant Prosecutor Mary Ann Castro. Guevarra said he made the directive for the NBI to “identify the perpetrators at the soonest possible time” in a text message to reporters. Castro was shot dead as she was driving her Nissan Juke vehicle on Escario St. on Thursday, Jan. 17. The police […]

Former barangay chair in critical condition after being shot by motorcycle-riding men in Pasay

(Eagle News) — A former barangay chair is in critical condition after she was shot in the face in Pasay on Monday, Nov. 26. A police report identified the victim as Gina Catalan. Catalan, the wife of a former Pasay police chief, was sweeping the sidewalk in front of her house on David Street, Barangay 23, at 7:15 a.m. when she was approached by two men on board a motorcycle. One of them shot at her, after […]

Away pulitika, sinisilip na dahilan sa nangyaring ambush sa Mayor at Vice Mayor ng Balaoan, La Union – PNP

Ni Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Sinimulan na ng binuong special investigation task group ang imbestigasyon sa pananambang kahapon sa mag amang Mayor at Vice-mayor ng Balaoan, La Union. Patay sa ambush si Vice Mayor Alfred Conception habang nakaligtas naman ang anak nitong si mayor Aleli Conception matapos pagbabarilin ng hindi pa nakikilalang mga suspek. Ayon sa PNP, wala pang mga persons of interest sa krimen, pero maaari daw silang magkaroon nang […]

Municipal mayor, vice mayor ambushed in La Union

(Eagle News) — The mayor and vice mayor of a municipality in La Union were ambushed on Wednesday, Nov. 14. Balaoan Mayor Aleli Concepcion and Vice Mayor Alfred Concepcion were on board their vehicles on their way to the municipal hall when they were shot at by still unidentified men in Barangay Cabuuan at 8:10 a.m. The vice mayor and his daughter were rushed to the hospital. Their conditions, however, are not yet known. The […]

President Duterte honors cops and soldiers killed, wounded, in NPA attacks last week

(Eagle News) —  President Rodrigo Duterte honored security forces killed in separate clashes with the New People’s Army (NPA) in Camarines Sur and Camarines Norte last week, as he conferred the order of Lapu-Lapu with the rank of Kalasag to the three policemen killed in the ambush. The President arrived on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at the Camarines Sur Police Provincial Office to visit the wake of PO1 Ralph Jason Vida, one of the three policemen […]

Malacanang denounces ambush on convoy of FDA chief where 3 policemen were killed

  (Eagle News) – Malacanang on Sunday, Oct. 21, denounced the attack on the convoy of a top official of the Food and Drug Administration that resulted in the death of at least three police escorts last Thursday, Oct. 18. The ambush on the FDA director general Nela Puno transpired along the national highway of Brgy. Napolidan, Lupi, Camarines Sur. Three other policemen were also wounded. “We strongly denounce the ambush of Food and Drug […]

3 police escorts ni FDA Chief Puno, sugatan matapos tambangan

(Eagle News) — Sugatan ang tatlong Philippine National Police security escort ni Food and Drug Administration Director-General Nela Charade Puno, matapos tambangan sa Lupi, Camarines Sur. Batay sa ulat, nangyari ang insidente kaninang 9:10 ng umaga sa kahabaan ng national highway habang si Puno at ang kaniyang escorts ay nasa byahe patungong Daet, Camarines Norte. Isinugod ang mga biktima sa Camarines Norte Provincial Hospital. Patuloy namang nagsasagawa ng imbestigasyon ang mga otoridad para matukoy ang […]

Before leaving for Indonesia, Duterte condoles with kin of PDEA agents killed in Lanao del Sur ambush

  (Eagle News) — Before he left for Indonesia, President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, October 10, visited the wake of five Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) agents who were killed in an ambush in Lanao del Sur. The President personally condoled with the family of the fallen PDEA agents and assured that justice will be served. The five PDEA agents who were ambushed were identified as IA 1 Vencio Ardepolla, IO 1 Laurice Joy Amar, […]

CJ De Castro calls on PNP to “exert all means, efforts to apprehend” those behind Ozamiz RTC executive judge killing

(Eagle News)–Chief Justice Teresita de Castro on Monday, Oct. 8, called on the Philippine National Police to “exert all means and efforts to apprehend the perpetrators” of the killing of the Ozamiz Regional Trial Court executive judge “at the soonest possible time.” According to De Castro, she has also “instructed the Court Administrator to coordinate with all law enforcement officers to bring to justice those responsible” for the death of Edmundo Pintac, who had been an […]