Toledo City Mayor Arlene Zambo (left) talks with news reporters on the bloody incident in that city. The violence marred inauguration of Zambo and other Toledo officials Monday. (Sun.Star Cebu/Alex Badayos)
CEBU CITY -- The feast day of St. John the Baptist in Sitio San Juan, Barangay Poblacion, Toledo City ended on a bloody note after armed men shot a policeman trying to pacify a rumble between two groups.
A man was killed while four persons, including the policeman, were wounded.
MANILA -- A military official and an opposition senator on Monday challenged three supposed generals to come out in the open and prove allegations that the killing of leftist militants has become military policy.
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- A production supervisor of a government radio station was killed while two others were injured in an ambush Monday in the island province of Tawi-Tawi.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- The communist New People's Army in Northern Mindanao claimed responsibility Monday for Sunday's raid of a police station in Dangcagan, Bukidnon that resulted in the death of a police officer.