BACOLOD CITY: Apparently not knowing what comatose means, a family in Bago City, Negros Occidental instead brought a sick member to the funeral parlour. Thankfully, workers at the funeral parlour found 27-year-old Rodolfo Caasi Jr still alive and saved him from being embalmed, Bombo Radyo reported on Wednesday. Caasi was injured in a motorcycle accident last month and was admitted to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City. Later, doctors pronounced him comatose.
Seven soldiers hurt in ambush
BUTUAN CITY: Five soldiers, a policeman and a government militiaman were wounded when New People’s Army (NPA) rebels ambushed the military truck carrying them in San Luis, Agusan del Sur on Thursday. Major Noli Kashinero, executive officer of the Army’s 26th Infantry Battalion, said the government troops were returning home after serving an arrest warrant against a murder suspect when they were waylaid.
Rebels submit to troops
MANILA: Three members of the leftist rebel group New People’s Army (NPA) surrendered yesterday to government troops in Davao del Sur, a military official said. Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesman Lt Col Ramon Zagala said the three brought with them their high-powered firearms when they surrendered to the army’s 39th Infantry Battalion (IB) in the town of Bansalan in Davao del Sur province. Zagala said the three were all active members of the NPA’s Front 51, Southern Mindanao Regional Command. He said they are undergoing custodial debriefing at the 39IB headquarters.
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