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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Flash floods killed a Dutch tourist in a popular cave located in the rugged Mulu National Park on Malaysia’s Borneo island, an official said Saturday, as a search continues for a missing guide. Local fire and rescue chief Law Poh Kiong identified the dead man as 66-year-old Peter Hans Hovenkamp from Utrecht in the central Netherlands. “He died due to drowning following flash floods in the caves. His body […]
(Eagle News) — A former town mayor was shot dead while under hospital arrest in Medellin, Cebu, the police said. Police said several armed men barged inside the Bogo-Medellin Corporation Medical Center in Barangay Luy-a at 11:50 p.m. and shot Ricardo “Ricky” Ramirez, 55, dead. Ramirez, who was arrested in 2017 for illegal possession of firearms, was a detainee at the Medellin District Jail. A probe is still ongoing.
(Eagle News) — Two men were found dead in front of a hotel in Makati on Friday, March 22. The police have yet to identify the victims who were found by policemen on patrol in front of the I’m Hotel along Kalayaan Avenue corner Makati Avenue past 5 a.m. Media reports described the men as “Asian-looking.” Police have yet to determine whether there was foul play in their deaths, or if the two leapt to their […]
(Eagle News) — One soldier was killed and three others were injured after government troops clashed with suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf in Sulu on Thursday, Feb. 14. Lt. General Arnel dela Vega, Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) chief, did not identify the casualties in the clash between members of the Army’s 6th Special Forces Battalion and the bandits in Barangay Bigasan at 11:30 a.m., but said the injured have already been brought to Kuta […]
(Eagle News)—-A suspected member of the Abu Sayyaf believed behind the 2002 Kidapawan bombing that killed at least seven has been arrested. Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde said Abdurahman Mataud Daiyung was nabbed by members of the National Capital Region Police Office and the military in Ermita, Manila. Albayalde said Abdurahman had a warrant for his arrest issued by a Basilan court for his alleged role in the kidnapping of employees of the Golden Harvest […]
(Eagle News) — One person was killed after a fire hit a building in Manila on Thursday, Jan. 17. Authorities have yet to identify the victim, who was found in a bathroom in the residential-commercial building in Sta. Cruz, Manila that caught fire at 9:52 a.m. The blaze reached the second alarm. A fire-out was declared at 10:50 a.m. The cause of the fire has yet to be determined.
(Eagle News)—Three people were killed after a fire hit a residential area in Manila on Tuesday, Jan. 15. The charred bodies of Lynrose Balot Valentin, 50; her son Jordan Valentin, 26; and a 17-year-old relative were found on the second floor of the house on Doña Maria Street in Sampaloc after the fire, which began past 6 a.m., was put out at 6:47 a.m. The blaze did not reach he first alarm. Authorities are investigating the incident. […]
(Eagle News)–The body of a Filipina was found floating in a river in Sabah recently, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday, Dec. 8. In a statement, the DFA said authorities were looking at the possibility the case of Madelyn Bernardo Asuncion, who was discovered by a plantation worker in Pengalan River in Melalap on Nov. 28, was a homicide. The DFA said the embassy in Malaysia is waiting for the official report of the incident […]
Former US president George H.W. Bush, who helped steer America through the end of the Cold War, has died at age 94, his family announced late Friday. “Jeb, Neil, Marvin, Doro and I are saddened to announce that after 94 remarkable years, our dear Dad has died,” his son, former president George W. Bush, said in a statement released on Twitter by a family spokesman. “George H.W. Bush was a man of the highest character […]
(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 […]
(Eagle News) –Typhoon Rosita (international name Yutu) has left at least 15 persons dead, even as officials expect this number to rise as more bodies are found in Northern Luzon which was badly hit by the tropical cyclone. The fatalities were from Region 3 or Central Luzon, Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and Southern Tagalog or CALABARZON. The number of injured at three are also expected to rise. The number of missing was also listed […]
(Eagle News) — Two Filipinos were killed in a car crash in Palmdale, California, on Saturday, Sept. 29. The Department of Foreign Affairs did not identify the Filipinas, but said they were in their 60s. Consul General Adel Angelito Cruz said in his report to Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano that the two were killed after the vehicle they were in crashed into a construction truck on 14 Freeway near Palmdale Boulevard. According to […]
