Philippine army soldiers patrol a village in Manay, Panabo town, Davao del Norte Province on Thursday. (AP photo)
MANILA -- Unidentified armed men assaulted a group of leftist militants in Oton town in Iloilo on Thursday night, wounding one of them and abducting two others, reports reaching the PNP national headquarters in Camp Crame said.
Wounded was Jose Ely Garachino, 51, a member of the leftist human rights group Karapatan, who was shot and hit in the neck. Garachino was rushed to Iloilo Doctors Hospital, the PNP Western Visayas Police Office said.
MANILA -- A German national and his Filipino wife were stabbed to death by two suspected robbers who broke into their residence in Baclayon town in Bohol province Friday dawn, reports reaching the PNP national headquarters said.
ON THE fourth day after his open-heart surgery at the St. Luke's Medical Center in Quezon City, First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo was given antibiotics to prevent possible infections.
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Manuel M. Bonoan to "immediately act" on the reconstruction of the old Bankerohan bridge that almost collapsed last Thursday morning.
