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(Eagle News)—The Philippine National Police is now looking for the child of the couple believed behind the Jolo, Sulu bombings that killed at least 23. PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde said this was so the child could identify the couple–initially believed to be Indonesian— who police said carried out the blasts at the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Cathedral in January. “Mayroon silang iniwan na anak dito sa Pilipinas and hopefully makita natin dahil paglaki nyan posibleng […]
(Eagle News)–The remains of the newlyweds who drowned while on their honeymoon in the Maldives have been flown to Sri Lanka. In a statement on Wednesday, Jan. 16, the Department of Foreign Affairs said the remains of Leomer Lagradilla and his wife Erika left the Maldives on board a Sri Lankan Airlines flight for Colombo at 12:50 a.m. Tuesday, Manila time. The couple’s remains will be embalmed in the Asian country before they are flown […]
(Eagle News)—The Department of Foreign Affairs will shoulder the repatriation costs of the remains of the Filipino newlyweds who drowned while on their honeymoon in the Maldives. In a Facebook post, Nikko Quiogue, friend of victims Erika and Leomer Lagradilla, said the information was relayed to him by Leomer’s sister Mhapz, after the family met with Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. The DFA tweeted a picture of the meeting, tweeting alongside it Locsin’s condolences […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — A German court Friday jailed a couple who tortured and killed women they had lured to their village home in what has been dubbed the “House of Horrors” case. Angelika Wagener, 49, received a 13-year prison sentence and her former husband Wilfried, 48, an 11-year term in a psychiatric ward for the abuse that led to the deaths of two women. The couple had entrapped at least eight women over […]
(Eagle News) — The couple who figured in a viral video arguing with Metropolitan Manila Development Authority commander Bong Nebrija and traffic enforcers who had only tried to issue a ticket to the woman for illegal parking has apologized. “We would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the MMDA enforcers especially to Col. (Nebrija) and Constable Azures. We ask for your understanding as emotions got the best of us,” the woman said […]
by Paul AUBRIAT and Clare BYRNE in Paris MAGNANVILLE, France (AFP) — A convicted radical who killed a French police couple in an IS-inspired stabbing was carrying a “hit list” of VIPs and urged followers to turn Euro 2016 into a “graveyard”, officials said Tuesday. Monday’s assault in a small town northwest of Paris was the first deadly strike in France since the coordinated attacks in the capital by an Islamic State cell in November, […]
