Hero dog draws sympathy, visitors with gifts
By: Julie S. AlipalaThe one-year-old dog here whose face was horribly disfigured when she saved her young masters from being hit by a speeding motorcycle two months ago, has become a celebrity of sorts.
The one-year-old dog here whose face was horribly disfigured when she saved her young masters from being hit by a speeding motorcycle two months ago, has become a celebrity of sorts.
The story of Kabang is one more heartwarming take on the familiar theme of the pet dog as lifesaver. Cousins Dina Bunggal, 11, and Princess Diansing, 3, were walking across Nuñez Extension on Dec. 14 not knowing that a speeding motorcycle was bearing down on them. At the crucial moment, Kabang, the Bunggal family’s dog, emerged from nowhere and jumped into the motorcycle’s path.
The cousins Dina Bunggal, 11, and Princess Diansing, 3, might have been seriously injured if not dead had it not been for a dog owned by the former’s family.
A team of US soldiers and about a dozen Filipino construction workers were fired at by unidentified men shortly before 7 a.m. Saturday in Barangay (village) Amaloy in Ungkaya Pukan, Basilan, a military official said.
Heavy rains since Thursday evening caused water to rise in several villages here starting Friday but no one was reported killed or injured.
Village officials in Tawi-Tawi’s 11 towns have been tapped to assist government forces in combing their respective islands to search for the two Europeans abducted by armed men on February 1.
Police investigators on Saturday came away empty-handed after religious and local leaders in Parang, Sulu, refused to show them the graves of local and foreign terror suspects believed to have been killed in a recent government bomb attack.
Police investigators went home empty-handed Saturday after religious and local leaders in the municipality of Parang in Sulu refused to show them the graves of alleged local and foreign terrorists the military claimed to have been killed in air strikes last Thursday.
The head of Bantay Ceasefire in Sulu said Friday that some civilians and a Bangladeshi national identified only as Mastal were among those killed by military air strikes in the municipality of Parang in Sulu. Professor Octavio Dinampo, who also works at the Mindanao State University there, said the information was relayed to him by an in-law of Abu Sayyaf leader Gumbahali Jumdail alias Doc Abu.
Using 227-kilogram bombs in an air attack that lasted only “a few seconds,” government warplanes on Thursday killed one of Southeast Asia’s most-wanted terrorist leaders, as well as a senior Abu Sayyaf commander and a Singaporean guerrilla.
The bodies of two men believed to be among the 11 fishermen, who were reported missing after 15 of their supposed companions were massacred off Sibago Island in Basilan last week, were found in Tongkil in Sulu Sunday night.
Armed men believed to be pirates attacked a group of fishermen near Sibago Island in Basilan on Monday, killing at least 15 of them, military and police officials said.
An American national allegedly flew into a rage at the Zamboanga City International Airport Sunday afternoon after he was barred from entering the departure terminal for failing to pay P40 terminal fee.
