Tag: Phillipines
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Nigerian medical student allegedly beaten to death by Chinese in Philippines
A Nigerian student simply known as Ikem has been allegedly brutally murdered by a group of Chinese in the Republic of Philipines. The deceased’s friend identified as Michael Ojuola, made this known via platform X on Sunday.
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36 arrested in Philippine raid on illegal online gambling operation
Philippine authorities have arrested 36 people from South Korea, China and Indonesia during a raid on an illegal online gambling operation, the Bureau of Immigration said on Tuesday. The Monday raid was conducted on an office in the city of Pasay, part of the Manila region, after the bureau received reports of foreigners working in…
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Reporter shot dead in front of his house
Police on Tuesday reported that a radio commentator who survived a 2016 assassination attempt was shot dead in front of his house in the northern Philippines. According to a police report, Virgilio Maganes, 62, was about to enter his house in the town of Villasis when two suspects shot him six times. The police said…
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UNBELIEVABLE: Fowl kills police officer in illegal cockfight raid
A Philippine police officer was killed by a rooster with a blade attached to its leg during a raid on an illegal cockfight, officials said on Wednesday. Christian Bolok, the chief of police in the town of San Jose in Northern Samar province, about 480 kilometres south of Manila, was rushed to the hospital after…
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9 killed, 17 wounded in southern Philippine blasts
At least nine people were killed and 17 others wounded in twin blasts in Sulu province in the southern Philippines around on Monday, the military and police said. In an initial report, the military said the first explosion occurred around 12.00 noon in front of a grocery store along a busy street in Jolo, the…
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Lockdown: Hungry residents demand food in protest, 20 arrested
Residents of a slum area in the Philippine capital on Wednesday staged a protest to demand relief goods amid a month-long coronavirus lockdown that has left many of them without work. The protest forced the police to break the picket up and arrest 20 of the protesters. The residents of the district of San Roque…
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At least 53,000 locals displaced by erupting Philippine volcano
At least 53,000 people had fled at-risk areas near an erupting volcano in the Philippines on Wednesday, as authorities stressed that the danger may not be over. The Taal Volcano in Batangas province, which is 66 kilometres south of Manila and located in the middle of a lake of the same name, started sporadically expelling…
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9 dead, 100 hospitalised in Philippines after consuming lambanog liquor
Nine people died and more than 100 were hospitalised after drinking local liquor made from coconut sap in two separate incidents in the Philippines, police said Monday. Eight people died after drinking a local brand of the traditional liquor, known as lambanog, at a get-together in Rizal town in Laguna province, some 70 kilometres south…
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Two killed in ambush on ex-lawmaker, governor
Unidentified gunmen on Wednesday ambushed a former lawmaker and governor in the northern Philippines, killing two of his bodyguards, the Police said. Amado Espino, a former governor and ex-congressman of Pangasinan province, was travelling in a car with five bodyguards when the attack occurred in San Carlos City, 162 kilometres north of Manila. According to…
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Islamist militants bomb Catholic cathedral, 27 dead
Between 18 and 27 people have been reported killed after terrorists bombed a Catholic church on a southern Philippine island that is a stronghold of Islamist militants, the military said Sunday. TheNewsGuru (TNG) learnt this is happening days after voters backed the creation of a new Muslim autonomous region. The first blast occurred inside the…