Batangas: Six people died while eight others sustained injuries in two successive vehicular accidents on the same road in Nasugbu town in this province before dawn on Friday, according to authorities.
In the first mishap, the driver and two helpers of a 16-wheeler truck lost their lives when the vehicle lost control along the descending and winding stretch of the highway in Sitio Bayabasan, Barangay Aga at around 2.50am.
PO2 Ramon Sale, Nasugbu police investigator, identified the fatalities as driver Rowel Santos, 30, and his two helpers, Alvino Gulila and LJ Gulila.
Probers said the truck, which was loaded with sand, was en route to Calaca town from Porac, Pampanga when Santos lost control of the wheel, sending the vehicle slamming into an electric post and pinning him and his helpers to death.
An hour later, a Batangas-bound 18-wheeler truck from Tagaytay City also lost control along the same highway stretch, ramming six vehicles and killing three people on the spot and injuring eight others.
Police identified the fatalities as truck driver Christopher Delaun and his helpers, Charlie Fermin and Celedonio Casilag.
Drunken barber hacks two
MANILA: A drunken barber, armed with a scissor, ran amuck in Antipolo City on Friday night, killing two neighbours and wounding six others before he was hacked to death by one of his victims’ kin, police said.
Senior Superintendent Rolando Anduyan, Rizal police director, said the head of suspect Jonathan Hementiza, 28, was cut off when a relative of one of his victims hacked him in the neck.
Police identified those killed by Hementiza as Romeo Gutlay Jr, 36, and Joseph Costa.
Hementiza, according to Anduyan, had been drinking heavily from Christmas Day to Friday.
Watchman slain in Pasay attack
MANILA: A barangay tanod (watchman) was killed while four others – including the barangay chairman – were wounded as unidentified attackers shot them in the barangay hall at Barangay 134, Zone 13 in Pasay City on Friday night.
According to police reports, the victims were watching a basketball game on television at the barangay hall at around 9.30pm when the gunmen shot at them through the steel grills of the hall’s windows.
Agencies
