Girl, 13, kills father in Batangas
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna, Philippines — A 13-year-old girl killed her father in Barangay Pinagkaisahan in Cuenca, Batangas on Friday, police said.
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Landslide deaths hit 28
MANILA, Philippines — The death toll in the landslide that devastated a mining community in Maco municipality in Davao de Oro has reached 28, disaster officials said yesterday.
10 passengers rescued near Romblon after motorbanca malfunction
MANILA, Philippines — A total of 10 distressed passengers were rescued by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and Municipal Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Office after experiencing vehicular trouble in the vicinity waters off Romblon.
Earthquake of magnitude 5.6 strikes Mindanao, Philippines
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Mindanao, Philippines, on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.The quake was 10 km (6 miles) deep, GFZ said.The Philippine seismology agency had a different reading, saying it was a magnitude 5.9 earthquake with a depth of 27 km (16.8 miles). The Philippine agency also said in a bulletin it was expecting no damage, but that there could be aftershocks.Rescue workers searching for dozens of missing people in an earlier landslide in Maco town in the southern Philippines province of Davao de Oro had to stop their operations because of the earthquake, authorities said.
Back-to-back strong quakes jolt Agusan province; damages feared
MANILA, Philippines — Two earthquakes, with magnitudes of 5.8 and 5.2, struck Agusan province on Saturday, while search and retrieval operations persist in the landslide-stricken area of Mindanao.
Cop, cohort fall in Cotabato City firearms sale entrapment
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Law-enforcement agents arrested a policeman and an alleged member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front after selling to them three assault rifles marked “Armed Forces Property” in an entrapment operation here on Friday.
Warrantless arrest on Jade Castro ‘baseless’ — FLAG chair
MANILA, Philippines — Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairperson, lawyer Chel Diokno, said that the warrantless arrest of film director Jade Castro and four others is unfounded.
EDITORIAL — Miracle
There was good news on the eve of the Lunar New Year: a baby boy and an older girl were pulled out of the rubble buried under mud yesterday in the landslide-hit Barangay Masara in the town of Maco, Davao de Oro.