A sixteen-year-old snatcher was no match to a female member of the Far Eastern University running team who was able to recover her cell phone after chasing and subduing the suspect at the corner of Kalaw Street and United Nations Avenue in Manila Thursday morning.
With just weeks to go before the end of the school year, the police, Manila City government and a consortium of schools in the university belt have signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) to ensure the safety and security of all students in the area.
Five students, two of them members of the FEU Tamaraws—Far Eastern University’s basketball team—were arrested on Tuesday for possession of marijuana.
National Capital Region Police Office chief, Police Director Leonardo Espina ordered the relief of the police community precinct commander of Manila Police District’s station 4, following the shooting incident in the University Belt area Tuesday evening which resulted to the deaths of two Far Eastern University students.
Those who are “not educated for voting” are choosing from those who are “not educated for serving.” This, in Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago’s typically trenchant view, is what ails the Philippine body politic.
Three more women have been charged in connection with the stabbing and wounding of a University of Santo Tomas (UST) student on the Far Eastern University (FEU) campus in Manila on Oct. 2.
Those charged with frustrated murder on Wednesday in the Manila Prosecutor’s Office were Aprille Borromeo, Danica Suba and Danica Ortega.
Joanne Lourdes Reyes told the police that she was first sprayed with tear gas by a woman dressed in pink before several others ganged up on her and stabbed her. She suffered six stab wounds, most of them in the back.
Based on the footage taken by a closed circuit television camera installed on the FEU campus, the police identified the woman in pink as Borromeo.
So far, six people have linked to the attack on Reyes. First to be charged was Ma. Christine Acosta, a graduating nursing student of FEU. Two other women tagged in the stabbing have yet to be identified.
Reyes told the police that she had been invited by a friend to watch a film competition at FEU on Oct. 2. While in the hallway of the science building, a group of women approached her and her friend, sprayed them with tear gas and then stabbed Reyes who was wearing a UST shirt.
SPO3 Genesis Aliling of the Manila Police District Sampaloc station, meanwhile, said that they have been forced to resort to other ways to identify the suspects as witnesses and Reyes have refused to help them in their investigation. With Rima Granali
Two weeks after a female student of the University of Santo Tomas was stabbed inside the Far Eastern University campus in Manila, another student was wounded in a knife attack, this time at Adamson University.
The female University of Sto. Tomas student who was stabbed on the Far Eastern University campus in Manila on Tuesday night said the attack had nothing to do with warring school sororities, contrary to reports.
The police will file attempted homicide charges against the Far Eastern University (FEU) nursing student who stabbed a University of Santo Tomas (UST) student on the FEU campus in Manila on Tuesday evening.
Investigators have identified one of the female suspects who allegedly stabbed a University of Santo Tomas student inside the Far Eastern University campus in Manila Tuesday evening, police said Wednesday.
A 20-year-old college student of the University of Santo Tomas is now being treated after being allegedly stabbed by female students from another university inside their campus in Manila Tuesday evening, police said Wednesday.
More than 40 students of the Far Eastern University (FEU) have stayed in the school’s main campus in Manila since Monday night due to the heavy rains that wreaked havoc in Metro Manila and nearby provinces.
