MANILA: The representative of Bohol, Erico Aumentado, one of the senior opposition leaders in the House of Representatives, died of pneumonia on Tuesday night at a hospital in Taguig City. He was 72.
Aumentado, who also served for three consecutive terms as governor of Bohol, was working on improving transparency among lawmakers in filing their statements of assets, liabilities and net worth as chairman of the House ethics committee at the time of his death.
The lawmaker died at 8:37pm at the St. Luke’s Medical Centre-Global City, according to his son and chief of staff, Erico Aristotle Aumentado.
2 dead in balloon plant explosion
COTABATO CITY: Two workers of an establishment selling balloons were killed when a steel cylinder full of helium gas exploded in their workshop in a residential area here on Wednesday.
The blast felled a coconut tree and damaged a house nearby.
The fatalities, 27-year-old Jay Tribunalo of Ilang, Davao City; and 14-year-old Dodong Jimlan, who was from Davao Oriental, died while being treated of their injuries in a local hospital.
Tribunalo and Jimlan worked for a balloon supplier named Georma Salihul.
Most suppliers of decorative balloons in Central Mindanao now use helium instead of oxygen, which is more expensive.
The scene of the explosion is not far from a nursing home for elderly people.
The local police are still investigating the incident.
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