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WWII bombs recovered in QC

Two bombs believed to be World War II relics were turned over to members of the Quezon City Police District’s explosives and ordnance division team the other day by a scavenger who found them in a digging on a construction site under the C5 flyover in Quezon City. Josephine Dunnuan said she initially thought of selling the 25-mm cartridges as scrap after she found them on Thursday between Commonwealth and Luzon Avenues although she eventually turned these over to the police. District Public Safety Battalion commander Senior Superintendent Gerardo Ratuita said that his team immediately took the vintage bombs from Dunnuan. “The corroded bombs do not present [an] immediate danger and are being kept in our stockroom,” he added. The bombs would be taken to a deserted area near Mt. Pinatubo in Zambales for proper detonation, he said.—Penelope P. Endozo

Pedicab driver kills man

A 49-year-old pedicab driver was arrested on Monday night for allegedly stabbing to death his drinking buddy over an argument in Manila. When confronted, Danilo del Rosario, a resident of Parola Compound in Tondo, said he could not even remember out of drunkenness what he and 38-year-old stevedore Dante Zingapan argued about. “All I can remember is our fistfight. He [Zingapan] hit me repeatedly in the body. I can still feel my sides hurt. He has a bigger body than me,” Del Rosario told the Inquirer in Filipino from inside a holding cell at the Manila Police District (MPD) homicide section.

Zingapan was declared dead on arrival by attending doctors at Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Hospital due to two stab wounds in the body. Case investigator Senior Police Officer 1 Charles John Duran said that the stabbing happened at around 10:15 p.m. on Monday at the corner of Elcano and Zaragosa Streets in Tondo. Duran said that earlier, the two men went on a drinking binge and then got into an argument. A scuffle ensued and Del Rosario allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed Zingapan twice in the body.—Jeannette I. Andrade