A soldier stands next to the totally-wrecked passenger bus following an explosion involving a tanker truck carrying compressed Carbon Dioxide gas along a highway in Tigbao, Zamboanga Del Sur province Friday.(Philippine Information Agency-Western Mindanao)
MANILA (Updated 6:35 p.m.) -- The death toll from a tanker explosion in the southern Philippines has risen from 27 to 50 after authorities accounted for the mutilated remains of more victims, officials said Saturday.
DAVAO CITY -- Armed men used a grenade launcher to punch a hole in a jail wall in Kidapawan City early Friday, then freed three suspected bombers and dozens of other inmates, officials said.
CEBU CITY -- The Cebu Provincial Government is bidding out P566.6 million worth of infrastructure projects such as roads, bridges, upgrading of district hospitals and repair of school buildings, among others.
MANILA -- The international group Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontiers) has tagged First Gentleman Jose Miguel "Mike" Arroyo as the "new enemy" of Philippine press for the series of libel suits he has filed against journalists.
