3 vs 1: Man injured

A barangay watchman out on an errand to buy beer was mauled and stabbed in the back for no reason by three men in Pasay City on Christmas Day.

Ronnie Villacorte, 33, a tanod of Barangay 80 Zone 10 and a resident of Loring Street, remains confined at Pasay City General Hospital for a stab wound in the back as well as bruises and other injuries on the face and body.

Chief Insp. Joey Goforth, Pasay City Police investigation and detective management division head, said that the stabbing took place at around 4 a.m. yesterday on Loring Street.

Earlier, Villacorte was walking to a store on nearby Pilapil Street to buy beer when he was accosted by three men.

One of them then hit the victim in the face, sending him  reeling and falling to the pavement.

While he was down, the trio pounced on him, one of them stabbing him in the back until Villacorte fell unconscious.

The police said that when the victim regained consciousness, he managed to walk back home where a relative brought him to the nearest hospital. Jeannette I. Andrade