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Woman killed in front of daughter, 5

A 30-year-old housewife was shot dead in front of her 5-year-old daughter in Manila on Wednesday. As of Thursday, however, Manila Police District homicide investigators remained clueless as to why Carmina Odoño, a resident of Lasuerte Street in Tondo, was killed as no one had come forward to testify. Case investigator PO3 Amelito Lopez said the shooting took place around 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, right after the victim fetched her daughter from a learning center on Oportunidad Street near the corner of C. M. Recto Avenue in Tondo. Mother and daughter were walking home when a man blocked their path, shot the victim once in the face and then escaped. The victim died on the spot and her daughter was later turned over to the care of a relative. Jeannette I. Andrade

4 wounded in Marikina home shooting

Four people were wounded when two men barged into a house in Marikina City and fired upon them for a still undetermined reason. In a report submitted to the Eastern Police District, case investigator PO2 Joel Sison of the Marikina police said that the shooting occurred shortly after midnight Thursday in the house of live-in partners Butch Nopies, 34; and Junie Redoble, 37; on Palay Street in Barangay Tumana. At that time, two of the couple’s friends, Emerita Borda, 34; and Jonil Adigue, 17; were staying with them when the victims heard a knock on the door in the midst of a heavy downpour. When Adigue opened the door, he saw two men, one of whom shot him in the abdomen. They also shot Nopies in the leg and Redoble and Borda in the torso. Both men then fled. Barangay officials who heard the gunshots took the victims, who told the police that they did not know the two men or why they were attacked, to a hospital for treatment. Jaymee T. Gamil

Dutch tourist robbed by 7 Pinays

A teenage Dutch tourist told the police that she was drugged and robbed by seven Filipino women who had befriended her while she and her friend were watching the Independence Day celebration. Laurentia Elisabeth Stokkel, a 19-year-old tourist from The Netherlands, told the police that she lost P23,600 to the suspects who withdrew money from her ATM account. Case investigator PO3 Jay Jay Jacob said that Stokkel and another Dutch woman were at Rizal Park on Tuesday when they were befriended by the women who invited them to go on a tour of Chinatown in Binondo, Manila. The victim and her friend agreed and said that after several drinks, they became dizzy and sleepy. During this time, the suspects ordered Stokkel to withdraw money from a bank using her ATM card after which they took her and her companion back to their hotel in Sta. Cruz, Manila. Jeannette I. Andrade