Three policemen, including the operations chief of the Cordillera police, were hurt after their helicopter crashed in a mountain in Kalinga on Wednesday, reports from the Isabela and Cordillera police offices said.
The “devils” took her son away, and Evelyn Pinated, mother of slain policeman, PO2 Elmark Rodney Pinated, wants them crushed.
Two days after Abu Sayyaf gunfire mowed down seven Marines on southern Jolo Island, a landmine planted by communist rebels killed eight policemen on their way to a medical examination in the north of the country.
To keep their political clout in Isabela, major families like the Dys and the Albanos are relying on clan-dominated candidates to win in the May 13 midterm elections.
Mayor Benjamin Dy, who served as Isabela governor from 1992 to 2001, died of complications from emphysema at the St. Luke’s Medical Center in Metro Manila early Saturday, a close aide said.
Police are eyeing politics as the primary motive in the murder of Mayor Erlinda Mora-Domingo of Maconacon, Isabela on Tuesday.
Police are eyeing politics as the motive behind the killing of Mayor Erlinda Mora-Domingo of the coastal town of Maconacon on Tuesday night in Quezon City.
A Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) official in the province was shot and killed on Tuesday by two men at a DENR checkpoint in Maddela town, police and DENR officials said.
A 59-year-old forester died on the spot on January 1 at 12:30 a.m., when he was gunned down with an armalite rifle by still unidentified men as he was trying to prevent the entry of a wood-loaded truck at a checkpoint in Barangay (village) San Pedro in Maddela, Quirino, sketchy reports from local police and environment officials, said.
Residents were unable to cross three bridges in Isabela on Saturday because these had been submerged in water discharged by the Magat Dam here.
Her fiance died in a road accident on Friday, but 30-year-old Geraldine Tiñoso proceeded with their scheduled wedding on Saturday at her home in Barangay (village) Sillawit here.
The Court of Appeals (CA) has ordered the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and officials of Mt. Province to stop the dumping of garbage along the Chico River in Bontoc town.
President Benigno Aquino III will bestow a posthumous Dangal ng Bayan award on a woman forestry specialist, who was killed by a lone gunman in her office in Cagayan in February.
