| Police (top) carry out dead and wounded from the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. The killings ended when the gunman, still unidentified at press time, com-mitted suicide, raising the death toll to 33.Virginia Tech is faced with tough questions about its handling of the crisis and whether it did enough to warn students and protect them after the first burst of gunfire. Bottom: Anthony Rose, Kevin Hock, and Dillion Gabbert pray in the War Memorial as they mourn the death of their fellow students. (AP photos/Sam Dean, The Roanoke Times) |
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A DAY after a peace covenant was signed to keep the May 14 elections peaceful and orderly, a political coordinator was shot at in an island town that has been declared an election area of concern.
Six shots failed to hit Rogelio Rico Luena, 63, as he was traveling along Barangay Tugas, Madridejos, Cebu yesterday morning.
Luena was campaigning with Madridejos vice mayoralty candidate Eddy Villacarlos when one of two men shot him at past 11 a.m. He heard about four shots.
Pinoy Votes: Sun.Star Election 2007
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