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Nova jeepney group leader tagged in barker’s slay 

THE PRESIDENT of a group of jeepney drivers and operators in Novaliches, Quezon City, was accused of killing a barker over an argument over terminal rules the other day. Virgilio Bergube, a jeepney driver and president of the group plying the Tala-Novaliches route, immediately escaped after he stabbed and killed Jornel Montemayor. SPO1 Gregorio Maramag of the Quezon City Police District Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit said the incident happened at 1 p.m. on Monday in a jeepney terminal on Regalado Avenue near Quirino Highway. Earlier, Bergube and the victim argued over the terminal rules after the latter accused the transport official of violating these, the policeman added. As they argued, Bergube took a knife and repeatedly stabbed the victim who later died while undergoing treatment at San Lorenzo General Hospital in Lagro. Jeannette I. Andrade

Gunmen on bikes kill 2 in QC

MOTORCYCLE-riding shooters killed two men in separate attacks in Quezon City with the police saying there was no way of identifying the suspects in both cases. According to reports from the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit, the gunmen in both cases were wearing motorcycle helmets while their motorcycles did not sport any license plates. The motives for the killings also remain unclear. The victims were identified as William Nozares, 20, a resident of Katuparan Street in Barangay Commonwealth; and Eduardo Eudor, 43, of AIB Sagada Street in Barangay Sto. Domingo. Nozares was shot dead by one of three motorcycle-riding men at 10 p.m. on Monday near his house as he was talking to his neighbors. The victim was taken by his friends to Far Eastern University Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival due to multiple gunshot wounds. In the second case, investigator SPO1 Pascual Fabreag said that Eudor was drinking coffee in front of his house at 7:30 a.m. yesterday when two men on a motorcycle approached him. One of them got off the vehicle and shot the victim in the chest and abdomen before he and his cohort fled. As in the case of Nozares, the victim died before he could be treated at the nearby Sta. Teresita Hospital. Jeannette I. Andrade

Sr. Amada V. Martin; 76

SR. AMADA V. Martin of the Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, who worked for 20 years in a chaplainship for overseas Filipino workers in London, died of a heart attack in her sleep at the age of 76 on Sunday. She was the community treasurer of the Columban Sisters. Her remains lie at the Sanctuarium on Araneta Avenue in Quezon City. Interment will be on Friday, July 26, after a 10 a.m. Mass. During her years in London from the late 1980s to 2009, Sister Amada assisted OFWs who escaped from abusive employers in Europe, Canada and the Middle East. Before her missionary work in London, she taught at St. Joseph School in Olongapo City. She also served as directress and treasurer of St. Joseph Schools in Lingayen and Labrador in Pangasinan province and was once treasurer of Columban College in Olongapo. Her congregation requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Columban Sisters’ missionary projects.