Manila - A despondent army sergeant killed three of his comrades in a shooting spree inside an army camp in the Philippine capital, an army spokesman said Thursday.
One soldier also was wounded when Sergeant Elias Tial ran amok late Wednesday inside their barracks in Fort Bonifacio in Manila's Taguig City, Lieutenant Colonel Romeo Brawner said.
Brawner identified the fatalities as Captain Benito Ramos, First Lieutenant Gerald Fuentes and Master Sergeant Eliseo de la Cruz.
Manila - A despondent army sergeant killed two of his comrades in a shooting spree inside an army camp in the Philippine capital, an army spokesman said Thursday.
Two soldiers also were wounded when Sergeant Elias Tial ran amok late Wednesday inside their barracks in Fort Bonifacio in Manila's Taguig City, Lieutenant Colonel Romeo Brawner said.
Brawner said the suspect, whose father died Saturday, escaped after the incident but the M16 rifle used in the shooting was recovered by his superior.
Bogota - Colombian authorities on Wednesday arrested 38 people with ties to former drug lords Gilberto and Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, the brothers who led the Cali cartel and are now imprisoned in the United States.
Colombian Attorney General Mario Iguaran said that their sister, Amparo Rodriguez Orejuela, was among those arrested in raids across Colombia in the so-called Operation Second Generation, as are four children of the two men.
Killer at home
The city and its adjacent areas report at least 1,000 cases of unnatural deaths, including drowning in sumps, in a year, police commissioner Shankar M Bidari said. This figure, on an average, translates to at least 83 such deaths a month.
Bidari said such cases are filed under Section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Core (CrPC). The case of three children who had drowned in a sump at their house, on Monday, also falls under this section.
Bidari further said that no case will be registered against the parents of the children, who had drowned at their Hosur Bande house near Bagalur on Monday afternoon. A case has been registered under Section 174 of the CrPC, he added.
Residents protest police inaction after local BJP leader's murder
The murder of a local BJP leader in Sangod in Kota district led to a violent clash between residents and the police on Tuesday. The police had to resort to baton-charge after the use of tear-gas failed to disperse the angry protestors led by some local BJP leaders.
Laxminaryan Nagar, general secretary of the Sangod rural BJP Mandal, was returning home when he was shot dead by some unidentified persons on Monday afternoon. Nagar's body lay in the fields on Sangod's outskirts till the evening when some passerby sighted it and informed the local police.
Manila - A despondent army sergeant killed three of his comrades in a shooting spree inside an army camp in the Philippine capital, an army spokesman said Thursday.
Manila - A despondent army sergeant killed two of his comrades in a shooting spree inside an army camp in the Philippine capital, an army spokesman said Thursday.
Bogota - Colombian authorities on Wednesday arrested 38 people with ties to former drug lords Gilberto and Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, the brothers who led the Cali cartel and are now imprisoned in the United States.
