DAVAO CITY: Two persons were injured when a light trainer aircraft crashed in the southern Philippines yesterday, police said.
Pilot Rotelio Fuentes and his student identified as a certain Fidel were rescued by villagers as their Cessna light plane went down in Kasilak village, Panabo City in Mindanao’s Davao del Norte province around 10am local time, said Samuel Gadingan, provincial police chief.
The aircraft, owned by local flight school Aerowurkz Aviation, was on a training flight when its engines allegedly malfunction, causing it to nosedive and crash, Gadingan said.
Accidents involving light planes are common in agricultural southern Mindanao region, particularly in Davao del Norte province where banana plantations employ aging light plane to apply pesticides to crops.
Army officer’s body found
MANILA: A middle-grade Army officer was found dead with a gunshot wound in his chest inside the Special Forces Officers Quarters (SFOQ) at Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija Wednesday evening.
Army spokesman Lt Col Randolf Cabangbang identified the officer as Maj Eddie Valde, executive officer of the Cebu-based 2nd Special Force Company.
Cabangbang said that Valde was found by his roommate at around 9:50pm inside his bed at Room No 9 of the SFOQ located inside the headquarters of the SF Regiment at Fort Magsaysay.
He said that the roommate, Capt Jomel David, rushed to their room after hearing a gunshot. Initial investigations showed that Valde sustained a gunshot wound in the chest.
Alarm over hijackings
ZAMBOANGA City: Police and military forces have intensified security in the circumferential highway of Zamboanga Peninsula following the spate of hijacking incidents targeting trailer trucks.
The local police reported that the latest attack was the hijacking of an oil tanker on Wednesday noon along the highway in Tangub town, Miramis Occidental.
Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca, Spokesman of Police Regional Office 9 (PRO), said the oil tanker truck driven by a certain Rey Bañez was bound for Aurora town in Zamboanga del Sur to deliver oil products when it was flagged down by two unidentified men.
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