Saturday, August 18, 2007 (Philippines)

Six Tau Gamma members, arrested for violation of the anti-hazing law, are booked at the Talamban, Cebu City police. Policeman shows the paddle they allegedly used for the hazing of recruits. Deaths and injuries resulting from hazing had led to the adoption of the law. The suspects tried to hide the illegal activity by staging the initiation in the mountain area of Talamban.(Sun.star photo/Allan Cuizon) TWO masked men on a motorcycle fired at a family in San Fernando, Cebu yesterday morning, killing two brothers and wounding their 69-year-old mother and a housemaid. Dead on the spot were Crispin Llanto Jr., 34, and his brother Emmanuel, 32. They succumbed to gunshot wounds in the head. Their mother, Evange-line, and helper Lolita Villaber, 47, were rushed to the South General Hospital in Naga town because of bullet wounds in the thighs. [full story]