Military and police units have been sent to go after a group of New People’s Army (NPA) rebels, which allegedly opened fire at the convoy of Gingoog City Mayor Ruthie Guingona, wife of former Vice President Teofisto Guingona, and killed two of her aides.
Senator Teofisto Guingona III blamed the New People’s Army for the assassination attempt on his mother, Gingoog City Mayor Ruth de Lara Guingona on late Saturday.
A campaign coordinator of a re-electionist candidate for Congress in Batangas was shot dead while on board a motorcycle traveling along San Juan town in Batangas Sunday noon, police said.
Exactly a week after the assassination of a lady mayor outside a Quezon City inn, one of the suspects in the ambush of Maconacon, Isabela, mayor Erlinda Domingo has turned himself in to authorities.
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Only two days after a nationwide gun ban was imposed for the election period, a rice trader was shot dead in Marikina City.
Two men shot and killed a businessman and his friend and threw a hand grenade as they fled, wounding four other people in Barangay Caingin here on Sunday night, police said Monday.
A househelper who allegedly delivered the vault containing the valuables owned by an undersecretary at the Department of Social Welfare and Development, to thieves on Saturday afternoon, has been arrested and is now being investigated by the police.
The son-in-law of former Quezon City Rep. Nanette Castelo-Daza pleaded not guilty on Monday to the charge that he killed her former boyfriend, Noel Orate Sr., inside her house in February.
The Department of Justice concluded its reinvestigation of the killing of business executive Noel Orate Sr. by affirming on Wednesday the homicide case filed last month by the Quezon City police against Bulacan provincial board member Romeo Allan Robes.
The families of the victims in the alleged police rubout in Ortigas Center back in 2005 want to stop the arraignment of policemen for homicide charges, saying their opposition to the downgrading of charges from murder is still pending with the high court.
Malacañang will ask Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo to do something about the Eastern Police District’s (EPD) continued tirade against a Daily Tribune reporter who was critically wounded after being shot seven times near his home in Pasig City early this month.
