Man runs amuck, 6 hurt

CAVITE—Six persons, among them children, were hurt after a drunken man ran amuck in Dasmariñas City on Wednesday evening, the police on Thursday said.

Police were tracking down the escaped  Aldrin Beltran, 26, who indiscriminately fired an improvised shotgun, hurting six members of a family in Barangay Sta. Maria, said  city police chief Supt. Ulysses Cruz.

Beltran and Anceto Mendoza, 42, were at the latter’s home drinking until they argued and got into a verbal fight.  He said Beltran went home and  returned shortly  with a shotgun.  Beltran fired several other shots, hurting Anceto and five other people in the house. Maricar Cinco, Inquirer Southern Luzon