MetroBriefs

Woman, daughter hit by car in Mandaluyong

A 15-year-old high school student may lose her leg after she was run over by a speeding car in Mandaluyong City early Sunday morning. Janine May Cardaño and her mother Mildred were crossing the street to go for a jog around Maysilo Circle in Barangay (village) Plainview when a gray Honda Civic (UDE 693) car hit them, Inspector Renato Ubalde, chief of Mandaluyong’s traffic enforcement unit, said. The accident happened at around 6 a.m. in front of the Mandaluyong City Hall compound. Ubalde said that the mother, a 35-year-old city hall employee, fell to the ground, well away from the car’s path but her daughter was run over by the vehicle. The driver of the car who was identified as Romeo Causapin, Jr., 27, was immediately arrested by the Mandaluyong traffic police unit. “The car was obviously [traveling fast] before it hit the two,” Ubalde said over the phone. The victims were rushed to Mandaluyong Medical Center for treatment. “The mother was discharged from the hospital but the girl has been taken to Philippine General Hospital because her leg may be amputated,” Ubalde said.—Niña Calleja

Man stabs neighbor dead in Manila

After hurling a brick on Saturday night at the house of Melchor Cervantes in Baseco compound, Tondo, Manila, his neighbor Dennis Luciro stabbed him dead the following day. Dedencia, the victim’s wife, told the Manila Police District homicide section Sunday that the two men had long nursed a grudge against each other. Case investigator Police Officer 2 Jose Gumilan said that on Saturday night, Luciro threw a brick at the victim’s house and then waited for him the following day. When Cervantes left his house at 6 a.m. on Sunday to open his wife’s store, Luciro went after him and stabbed him four times. The victim then died on the spot as his attacker escaped.—Jaymee T. Gamil

Driver killed, another wounded in shooting

Manila policemen are looking for three men who shot and killed Ronaldo Santos, 61, a taxi driver, and wounded a pedicab driver, Rodolfo Manabat, in Tondo, Manila on Sunday morning. Case investigator Police Officer 2 Bernardo Cayabyab of the Manila Police District homicide section said that before the shooting, the three men were looking for another person but when they failed to find him, they turned their ire on the victims who were just chatting nearby.—Jaymee T. Gamil