Local officials in Pampanga are exploring other life-saving measures as they find it difficult to enforce the swimming ban in seven coastal towns along Pampanga River after seven people, five of them children, died in two incidents last week.
A foreigner, believed to be a Liberian national, allegedly drowned in the waters of Manila Bay early Thursday, police said.
Two girls drowned in the Pampanga River in Apalit, Pampanga, on Wednesday, police said.
The Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) was named the best police regional office in the country.
Three children drowned in separate incidents in Cebu.
Two girls who fell into a river and the man who went to their rescue drowned in Noveleta town on Friday, police said Saturday.
A 14-year-old boy from San Juan City drowned in a public swimming pool near Malacañang Saturday morning, the Manila Police District said.
Government search-and-rescue teams rescued 21 people, mostly teachers, from a passenger boat that capsized in heavy seas off the town of Bacacay in Albay late Friday afternoon. At least four people, including the boat’s skipper, died in the accident and their bodies have been recovered, officials said Saturday.
Three students drowned on Monday when they went swimming in Jalaur River in Dingle, Iloilo, authorities said. Police identified the fatalities as Glaiza May Biaco, Karen Jane Cabucos and Donna Amor Provido, all aged 13 and Grade 7 students of Mater Carmeli School in Dingle.
A banana plantation security guard who just wanted to rescue his co-employees from the floods that hit Kapalong, Davao del Norte, drowned early Thursday while hundreds of other terrified villagers fled from the deluge that also inundated areas in Talaingod town in the same province.
A MAN drowned last Monday afternoon in Cabahug wharf in barangay Looc, Mandaue City. The body of Roberto Capiznon, 22, of barangay Mantuyong, was found under a barge moored at the wharf. His cousins and friends called the police after he went under at past 2 p.m. His body was found three hours later floating [...]
The drowning of a tourist in the crater lake of Mt. Pinatubo early this month has raised questions on how a Korean-owned travel firm ensured the safety of its clients and on how the local government of Capas, Tarlac, regulated the firm.
A grudge over a basketball game led a man to hack his neighbor.
