NEWSBRIEFS

ZAMBOANGA

Bus turns turtle

At least 20 people, mostly teachers, were injured when a Rural Transit Bus turned turtle as it was passing by Monching village in Siay town, Zamboanga Sibugay, on Saturday, police said.

Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca, spokesperson of the Western Mindanao police, said the driver of the bus, which came from Marawi City, tried to avoid an approaching vehicle.

The victims suffered bruises and contusions, and were brought to Pathfinder Hospital in Kabasalan town, Zamboanga Sibugay, for treatment. Julie Alipala, Inquirer Mindanao

NEGROS OCCIDENTAL

17 hurt in road accident

Seventeen Army soldiers and members of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit were injured when the military truck they were riding in lost its brakes while on a downhill curve in Sipalay City, Negros Occidental province, on Thursday.

Superintendent Noel Mana-ay, Sipalay police chief, said the victims were brought to the city health office for treatment.

Investigation showed that they were on their way to an outreach activity in Barangay (village) Maricalum in Sipalay when the driver lost control of the truck in Sitio Anda, investigators said. Carla Gomez, Inquirer Visayas

7 to be deported

Six Chinese and one Indian found overstaying in the country on Thursday filed petitions for voluntary deportation in the Bureau of Immigration, Bacolod City alien control officer Casimiro Madarang III said.

Madarang said the agency’s hearing officer had recommended the deportation of the seven, whose names were withheld, and they agreed to leave the country.

Still detained at the Bicutan jail in Taguig City is Tsai Yung Pin, a Taiwanese who was arrested on estafa charges in Hinigaran town. He has been issued a summary deportation order for “undesirability, being a fugitive from justice.” Carla Gomez, Inquirer Visayas

QUEZON

2 village chiefs held

Police caught two village chiefs of Sariaya town while engaged in an illegal cockfight on Friday.

Acting Sariaya police chief Supt. Joel de Mesa said by phone that Renato Bascoguin, chair of Barangay (village) Tumbaga I and a suspected illegal gambling operator, was also in possession of an unlicensed .45-cal. pistol and a magazine with seven live bullets.

Police raided Bascoguin’s illegal cockfight area at around 11 a.m. and caught Bascoguin with another village chief, Dioscoro Alcala of Barangay Morong, and three others—Pacencio Manalo, Jaime Rosales and George Landicho.

Another villager, Alvin Perez, was also found carrying paraphernalia for “colored games,” an illegal numbers game using dice, and P3,100 in purported gambling money. Delfin T. Mallari Jr., Inquirer Southern Luzon

DAGUPAN CITY

Iranian kills Iranian

An Iranian student stabbed and killed a fellow Iranian following a heated argument in Dagupan City on Sunday night, police said on Monday.

Bagher Nasserosta, 27, a nursing student in one of the universities in Dagupan, died while being taken to Decena General Hospital, said Superintendent Christopher Abrahano, city police chief.

Abrahano said Nasserosta was visited by fellow Iranian and nursing student Afshin Mamdavi in his apartment in Barangay (village) Bonuan Gueset at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday. The exchange turned violent when Mamdavi, 38, suddenly took out a knife and stabbed Nasserosta in the chest.

Abrahano said Mamdavi was arrested and detained at the city police station. Gabriel Cardinoza and Yolanda Sotelo, Inquirer Northern Luzon