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Cagayan de Oro City
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May 7, 2012
‘Gang war’ eyed in Iligan grenade blast By PJ TREMEDAL, Western Mindanao Bureau with AL JACINTO, Regional Editor-Zamboanga
ILIGAN City––A dispute among local teenagers could be the reason behind the bloody grenade throwing here Saturday night, a senior police official said yesterday. But city police director depth into bloody incident Supt. Celso Regencia said that killed two persons and that police investigators injured dozens of civilians. are still conducting an in“An improvised explosive
device exploded in downtown Iligan and at least three people were dead and 20 others are wounded in the blast,” said Army Lt. Col. Randolph Cabangbang, a spokesman for the Western Mindanao Command. He said the blast occurred at around 8 p.m., but it was not immediately known who were behind the attack, although the city had been previously bombed by
Moro rebels. Cabangbang said they are still awaiting reports. He said the blast targeted a favorite place popular among locals for its restaurants and live rock bands called “El Centro.” No individual or group claimed responsibility for the explosion and authorities were investigating the attack whether it was GRENADE/PAGE 9
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P200M expansion of gov’t hospital mulled By CRIS DIAZ, Associate Editor
CONGRESS, this week, expects to tackle the P 200 million expansion of the Northern Mindanao Regional Medical Center in Cagayan de Oro following the resumption of legislative session today. From a 300-bed government hospital, plans to expand the hospital bed’s capacity to 600 has been in place, Rep. Rufus B. Rodriguez, 2nd District, Cagayan de Oro, said over the weekend. ‘We will double the hospital’s capacity. We will double everything from budget to hospital equip-
RODRIGUEZ ment, medicines, and human resource requirements,’ Rodriguez said in a telephone interview. He said the resolution HOSPITAL/PAGE 9
Bike driver killed, 2 hurt in road collision By PAT SAMONTE, Regional Editor-Caraga with JOEL PORTUGAL, Correspondent
BUTUAN City––A motorcycle driver was killed while his wife and daughter were injured when the vehicle collided with an Isuzu Forward truck in Purok 1, Barangay Basilisa, Remedios T. Romualdez,Agusan del Norte on Thursday. Authorities identified the fatality as Jimmy Escobar, 30, of R.T. Romualdez town. Police said the Isuzu Forward truck driven by Noel Alejandro, 25, was heading for Cabadbaran City from Butuan City at around 10:30 in the morning when it overtook a vehicle. The truck collided with the Honda XRM 125 motorcycle driven by Escobar coming from the opposite direction. Escobar and his passengers were rushed to the Cabadbaran Emergency Hospital were Escobar succumbed to multiple injuries. Escobar’s wife and daughter were still confined at the hospital. Alejandro voluntarily surrendered to the police while both vehicles were impounded at the R.T. Romualdez police station. Appropriate charges have been filed against the Isuzu truck driver, police said.
WEATHER UPDATE RIDGE of High Pressure Area (HPA) extending over Bicol Region and Eastern Visayas. The entire archipelago will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening. Light to moderate winds blowing from the Northeast will prevail over Northern and Central Luzon, East to Southeast over the rest of Luzon and Visayas and coming from the Northeast to North over Mindanao. The coastal waters throughout the archipelago will be slight to moderate. SOURCE : PAGASA
Cagayan de Oro Press Club past president Herbie Gomez, lawyer Titots Neri, Philippine Press Institute point person Allan Mediante, Cagayan de Oro Press Club director Uriel Quilinguing and JB Deveza of the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines lead a panel to answer queries during the World Press Freedom Day celebration held Friday at Xavier University. The forum focused on libel and freedom of information and was conducted under the auspices of the Embassy of the United States. Photo by Gerry L. Gorit
More lawmakers want to defer 2013 brgy elections THE call to reset the October 2013 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan polls is gaining ground as lawmakers file separate bills
for its postponement to varying dates. The latest to seek such postponement of the polls is Rep. Jerry Treñas (Lone
District, Iloilo City) who filed HB 6005 resetting the elections to the last Monday of October 2015, which DEFER/PAGE 9
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