VOL. 10 ISSUE 19 • FRIDAY - SATURDAY, MAY 5 - 6, 2017 WAITING FOR TOURISTS. A boat worker does his morning routine of cleaning up the vessel while waiting for Davao City-bound passengers at Babak wharf in the Island Garden City of Samal (IGaCoS) on Thursday. Passenger boats and other means of transportation to the tourism destinations around the region need to be augmented as tourist arrivals increased, according to secretary Wanda Teo. Lean Daval Jr.
P 15.00 • 20 PAGES
www.edgedavao.net
EDGEDAVAO Serving a seamless society
LOSING LARRY Fish vendor hit in NPA Mandug attack dies, Sara expresses grief
By JECIA ANNE OPIANA
T
HE fish vendor who got hit by an improvised explosive device (IED) during the attack by the New People’s Army of a Lapanday Food Corporation plant in Mandug on April 29 died yesterday. Doctors at the Southern
BOLD PREDICTION SPORTS, P.16
Philippines Medical Center confirmed that Larry Timbal Buenafe, the fish vendor, expired at 5:00 o’clock in the morning of Thursday, after five days in coma, due to his head injury when an IED exploded while traversing Barangay Tigatto in his motorcycle last
April 29. On Thursday afternoon, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio expressed her grief in an official statement released by the Office of the City Information. “It is a sad day for Davao City. I am sorry we lost Larry,
a victim of delusional people living in an alternate universe who are now celebrating their so-called victory against oppression,” she wrote. In her statement, she said that the people behind Buenafe’s death were the
F LOSING, 10
Aussie legend says Horn has no chance to beat Pacquiao