| Erica Pili, who was wounded after a caretaker of a vegetable farm went a shooting rampage, cries as she is carried to a waiting ambulance at Calamba, Laguna Monday. Erica's parents and three other sisters were killed by the suspect. (AP Photo) |
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MANILA (Updated 10:14 a.m.) -- The Philippine National Police (PNP) said it has taken into its custody a retired policeman for possible involvement with the "massacre" of eight civilians, five of them children, in Calamba City on Monday dawn.
PNP spokesman Nicanor Bartolome said former SPO4 Florencio Peria will be formally charged with murder before the local prosecutor's office, along with his farmhand, Abe Defiesta, who Peria implicated.
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