A member of the Presidential Security Group has been charged in court for allegedly punching his girlfriend in the face right on Malacanang Palace grounds as she tried to break off with him after learning he was already married and had two kids.
At least seven people were killed while a presidential aide survived an ambush during mid-term elections in the Philippines on Monday, authorities said.
Following Sunday’s violence in SK Pendatun town in Maguindanao that led to the killing of the education district supervisor, the Commission on Elections has put the town under its control, with deputized police officers taking the lead as Board of Election Inspectors.
A police officer was being investigated for allegedly harassing a businessman because the latter refused to support the officer’s wife, who is a vice mayoral candidate here, the police reported Monday.
A grenade was fired towards the polling precinct in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao on Monday morning apparently to scare off voters on Election Day, according to local officials.
A son of a mayoral candidate in Glan town in Sarangani reportedly beat up a volunteer reporter of RMN-Radyo Agong while covering the election at around 9 a.m. Monday.
A voter was killed while five others were wounded when unidentified men fired at a convoy of voters in Tiptipon village in Panglima Estino town in Sulu on Monday morning.
At least five people were hurt in an early-morning scuffle between supporters of two political rivals in Caloocan City on Saturday, after barangay officials barred the local chapter of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) from preparing a stage for its miting de avance.
The body count is rising in election-related cases of violence nationwide. In Quezon, at least two supporters of reelectionist Gov. David Suarez were gunned down on Monday, prompting the highest Church official in the province to express alarm.
A group of 300 supporters of reelectionist Gov. David Suarez holding a meeting here on Thursday reported being fired upon by a group of unidentified men armed with high-powered firearms.
Two soldiers were killed and six others hurt on Thursday morning when suspected communist rebels attacked a military convoy ferrying precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines to a village in Tabuk City in Kalinga, the Cordillera police said.
Unidentified armed men opened fire at the house of Cavite provincial administrator and former Rosario town mayor Renato Abutan on Wednesday evening but no one was hurt, the official said on Thursday.
Two Army soldiers, who were part of a unit guarding voting machines, were wounded after their group clashed with an undetermined number of suspected communist rebels in Ragay, Camarines Sur early Thursday, an Army spokesman said.
