Russian climber dies on Everest
A 50-year-old Russian climber died Wednesday attempting to scale Mount Everest in this season’s fourth death on the world’s highest peak, a government official said.
A 50-year-old Russian climber died Wednesday attempting to scale Mount Everest in this season’s fourth death on the world’s highest peak, a government official said.
A 70-year-old voter died when she collapsed while waiting for her turn to vote at the Lagao National High School in Monday afternoon.
A commotion occurred at the polling precinct here on Monday morning when a voter suffered a heart attack while waiting in line for his turn to vote, the state-run Philippine News Agency reported.
Daisy Avellana, a pioneering actress, director and writer whose career spanned the emergence and flowering of modern Philippine theater, and whose seminal contributions to the field led to her being declared a National Artist for Theater in 1999, died Sunday morning. She was 96.
Joy Cortes de los Reyes, editor in chief of Malaya Business Insight, died Friday. He was 59.
Primitiva Talag Sioson passed away on Saturday. She was 89. She is survived by her husband, Romeo, daughter Thelma Sioson San Juan, Philippine Daily Inquirer lifestyle editor; son Geraldo; and six grandchildren.
Former Sorsogon Representative Jose Solis, 80, passed away here early Tuesday.
Former Batac Mayor Jesus Nalupta Sr., a pillar of the Nalupta political family in Ilocos Norte, died of a heart attack at Mariano Marcos Memorial Hospital and Medical Center here on Sunday night.
Col. Felix Clemente Castro Sr. (ret., Philippine Air Force) of Camiling, Tarlac, who died on Saturday, will be buried Thursday at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani. His remains lie at the Libingan Mortuary Chapel 2. He was 80.
Hortencia Gamboa Adao died on March 16. She was 88.
Fe Victoria Dela Cruz Guinto, mother of Bloomberg reporter Joel Guinto, died Sunday, March 10. She was 58.
The remains of Joana Pizarra, who died in hospital a week after the tragic bus accident in Benguet that also claimed the lives of three of her classmates and two teachers, were brought home here early Friday.
Vicente Operario Valley II of Sulat, Eastern Samar, died Wednesday. He was 44.
