BATANGAS: Agents of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) yesterday invited 138 Chinese nationals for allegedly working at a construction site in Calaca town this province without the required working permit and visa.
BI officer-in-charge Siegfred Mison said the Chinese were rounded up at the project site of the NEPC Power Corp in Barangay Puting Bato, Calaca, after the bureau got reports on their presence there from citizens and agencies.
The Chinese were later brought to the BI’s field office in Batangas City “for interview, verification and inquest proceedings,” Mison said.
Mison said the foreign workers could not show their passports or any travel documents when questioned by BI agents backed up by Calaca policemen.
Two killed in Quezon City
MANILA: A jeepney driver and an out-of-school teenager were shot dead in Quezon City on Thursday night.
Ruben Reguya Jr, 33, and Adrian Villones, 15, died while being treated at a hospital due to gunshot wounds all over the body from the attack.
The victims were in Reguya’s jeepney, parked along General Avenue in Barangay Bahay Toro, chatting with an unidentified woman. A few minutes after the woman left after 8pm, two unidentified men on a motorcycle approached the victims and the man riding behind the driver repeatedly shot them, Senior Police Officer 1 Cristituto Zaldarriaga said.
The gunman and his accomplice sped away after the attack, he said.
Governor’s Palace fire
MANILA: Fire struck a portion of the Palacio Del Gobernador in Intramuros, Manila yesterday noon.
The fire started at the building at about 12:13pm. Several offices of the Commission of Elections (Comelec) are housed inside the building.
Comelec spokesman James Arthur Jimenez said that the poll body’s offices were not affected by the fire. “Fire at the Palacio Del Gobernador was on the sixth floor. Not Comelec, contrary to early fears. The fire has been put out,” Jimenez said in his Twitter account.
Manila Fire Department Senior Fire Officer 1 Raul Angeles said the fire reached the first alarm before it was placed under control at 12.20pm. No one was hurt or killed. Investigators are yet to determine the cause of the fire.
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