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NAGA CITY

Farmer killed over carpentry job

An unfinished carpentry job cost the life of a farmer in San Ramon village in Claveria, a town on Burias Island of Masbate, on Saturday, the police said on Sunday.

Farmer Milarosa Andueza, 46, was stabbed to death by carpenter Borneo Atabay Jr. at about 5 p.m. Saturday following a heated argument and a fistfight over an unfinished carpentry job at the residence of the victim, said Insp. Leonido Belleza, chief of the Claveria police.

As the two grappled with each other on the ground, Atabay took out a bladed weapon from his waist and stabbed Andueza four times in different parts of his body, causing his death. Atabay fled after the incident and remained at large, said Belleza. Jonas Cabiles Soltes, Inquirer Southern Luzon

CABANATUAN CITY

‘Hot’ lumber recovered

Environment personnel and soldiers recovered at least 5,000 board feet of illegally sawn lumber from a section of Sumacabao River, near the Minalungao National Park in Gen. Tinio town last week.

The recovery of at least 150 pieces of lumber from the river came barely a month after the National Greening Program was launched in the area, where students, residents and local and environment officials planted 5,000 saplings in the park.

Joselito Blanco, community environment and natural resources officer in southern Nueva Ecija, said no one was arrested in the operation on Thursday because the lumber were transported through water current, a method known here as “water logging.” Armand Galang, Inquirer Central Luzon

ORIENTAL MINDORO

More logs seized

Environment officials and the military in Oriental Mindoro have seized 9,423 board feet of hot logs in Barangay (village) San Andres in Naujan town.

The Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office led by Arthur Serna learned about the logs on July 4 and immediately proceeded to the area together with troops from the Army’s 203rd Infantry Brigade led by its commander, Col. Carlos Quita, at around 1 p.m of the same day to confiscate the logs, which had been abandoned by its illegal cutters, according to Captain Simplicio Guyong Jr., 203rd IB civil military relations officer, in a statement on Saturday.

The logs were brought to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Region IV-B office in Barangay Suqui, Calapan City, for proper disposal. Madonna Virola, Inquirer Southern Luzon