Tag: Daanbantayan

Duterte says Roxas ordered hit on Loot; Palace says Duterte merely joking

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Dec. 18, said it was Mar Roxas who ordered former police general Vicente Loot killed. “I did not order the ambush. It was Roxas. Roxas ordered his ambush, not me,” Duterte said in Visayan.   On May 18, unidentified men opened fire at Loot and his family who had just arrived in a wharf in Daanbantayan, Cebu, where the former general is mayor. They survived the attack. President Duterte has […]

PNP: Cebu Mayor Loot hurt after accidental discharge of gun

(Eagle News)– Daanbantayan, Cebu Mayor Vicente Loot had to be rushed to the hospital on Wednesday, May 30, after a gun that he had left tucked in his pants accidentally discharged. A police report said Loot had come from a vigil of a supporter in Barangay Lanao when the incident took place at 8:40 p.m. The report said Loot sat on the weapon, which discharged a bullet that hit his left leg. The incident took […]