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Separate blasts kill two, wound 7 in Zamboanga By Florante S. Solmerin
A couple was killed and seven other persons were injured in two separate explosions that occurred Thursday night and Friday morning in Zamboanga city, reports said.
City police head Chief Inspector Joel tutuh said couple Danilo and Marites Ocampo died on the spot after the husband “accidentally” unpinned a grenade during their heated argument.
shrapnel from the explosion that occurred at around 10:49 a.m. at the shores of sitio Agrarian in Barangay Patalon also hurt four minors playing near them.
“the couple was from sibuco town in Zamboanga del norte. they had just docked their boat when the couple had a heated argument. the husband took out his grenade, apparently, just to scare his wife but he accidentally removed the pin that caused the explosion,” tutuh said. the injured children aged seven, 10, 11, and 12 were rushed to the hospital for medical treatment. Prior to this incident, three persons including a minor sus-
tained shrapnel wounds after an improvised explosive device exploded at the gate of the YL Fishing Corp. in Barangay talontalon. tutuh said the company was engaged in commercial fishing and investigators ruled out terrorism and believed the explosion could be a rift between some workers of the company. the blast injured security guards Carlito Bastian, 45, and Ranillo Agan, 45, and Agan’s son Arvin.
Flattened. A resident of Bulusan, Sorsogon, looks in horror at what remains of her home after the onslaught of Typhoon ‘Nona.’ AFP
CIDG busts gun-running syndicate in CamSur Agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection group busted a gun-running syndicate with the arrest of four members including their leader during a buy-bust operation Wednesday last week in Barangay Balatas, naga City, CIDg regional chief senior superintendent Marlon tejada said thursday. tejada identified the arrested alleged leader as Roy sibulo y Llaneta, 28. sibulo, he said, is the leader of the “Avila Criminal gang” that supplies guns and ammunitions to crime groups and possibly private armed groups in the 3rd and 4th districts of Camarines sur. Arrested with sibulo were Moises Onoya y Losito, 56, Antonio Avilla y tan, 45, and Aurio Agaya y Itomo, 47. the suspects were arrested at around 8:45 p.m. after receiving the “boodle money” as payment for the guns they sold to poseur buyers in front of the sto. niño Memorial Park. “seized from the possession and control of the group were 1 caliber 9mm pistol, a 9mm luger kg-9, 3 magazines, a magazine loaded with 8 ammo for cal. 9mm, 2 suppressors/silencer, 1 purple knapsack, a P500 bill marked money and P40,000 boodle money,” tejada said. He said the suspects were already charged for violation of Republic Act 10591 (Firearms and Ammunition Law).
Florante S. Solmerin
Aquino names seven judges for Ilocos, Bicol By Rey E. Requejo MALACAÑAng has appointed seven new judges for the Ilocos Region and Bicol Region. In a nov. 27, 2015 transmittal letter sent to Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Aranal-sereno, President Aquino, through executive secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr., said he had appointed new lower court judges. the new judges would be assigned in the Municipal and Regional trial Courts in Mt. Province, Ilocos, Camarines sur, Masbate and Camarines norte. named new judges for the Ilocos Region were Judge Kode garlejo Daoas of the MtC, tadian, Mt. Province and Judge Vida Advento Cortez-Jimeno of the 12th MCtC, tagudinsayo, Ilocos sur. For the Bicol Region, the new judges are Judge Maria Clarissa Lianko Pacis-trinidad of the RtC Branch 36 of Iriga City, Camarines sur; Judge soliman M. santos Jr. of the RtC Branch 61, naga City, Camarines sur. Judge teofilo B. tambago of
the RtC Branch 46, Masbate City, Masbate; Judge Jonel C. Martinez-Ursua of the MtC, Jose Panganiban, Camarines norte and Judge Dara san Juan Mallorca-torres of MtC Paracale, Camarines norte. the Judicial and Bar Council screened the appointees prior to their appointments. the sevenmember council, which is constitutionally mandated to screen and vet nominees to the President for vacant posts in the judiciary and the Offices of the Ombudsman and Deputy Ombudsman, is chaired by Chief Justice sereno, with ex-officio members, namely senator Aquilino Pimentel III and Iloilo Rep. niel tupas and Justice Benjamin Caguioa. Retired sC Justice Angelina sandoval-gutierrez is the head of the executive Committee and represents the Retired sC Justice sector; lawyer Jose Mejia representing the Academe, retired Court of Appeals Justice Aurora santiago-Lagman representing the private sector and lawyer Milagros Fernan-Cayosa Senior love. Bataan Gov. Hermogenes Ebdane announces the opening of from the Integrated Bar of the Philippines are the the senior citizens’ ward at the provincial hospital and the distribution of other regular members of the JBC. health care passbooks to the elderly. BUTCH GUNIO