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Tuesday, February 11, 2003 (Philippines)
| DEATH TOLL RISES. The number of people who died in a road accident last Sunday in Jubay, Liloan, Cebu rose to three. The driver of the prime mover was found to have drowned while trapped for several hours inside the truck. The prime mover had plowed into two multicabs and a tricycle before falling from a 20-foot bridge. Above: Rescuers extricate the body of driver Perlito Godienes, 44, of Sagay, Negros Occidental. At least 15 others were injured in the four-vehicle mishap.(SUN.STAR FOTO/AMPER CAMPAñA) |
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JUST as his lawyer had anticipated, the kidnapping case against former policeman Engilberto Durano is going their way. Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 22 Judge Pampio Abarintos yesterday denied the prosecution’s motion to admit Oster Repollo’s earlier testimony against Durano.
With Abarintos’ order, the prosecution is skeptical of their chances to get a conviction against Durano, who has two other pending criminal cases with different RTCs.
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Abducted or not, where is Sato?
AFTER imposing a “media blackout” last Sunday on the whereabouts of the missing 70-year-old Japanese national, Police Regional Office 7 Director Rolando Garcia yesterday stopped short of saying Ryohei Sato was kidnapped.
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Death toll in Liloan accident rises to 3
TWO persons died and at least 15 were seriously wounded after a wayward prime mover plowed into two multicabs and a tricycle before falling from a 20-foot bridge, along with the tricycle, around 7:30 last night in Liloan town.
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Inmate bolts city jail past sleeping guard
AN INMATE at the Bagong Buhay Rehabilitation Center (BBRC) went past an allegedly sleeping guard and escaped yesterday dawn, in what City Hall described as proof of a “systems breakdown” at the jail management bureau.
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