MANILA: A motorist who reportedly fell asleep at the wheel smashed a family’s makeshift home – a pushcart parked on the curb – in Quezon City before dawn yesterday, leaving two persons dead and three others injured.
The motorist, John Oyos, 33, fled the scene of the accident, leaving behind the Honda Civic (WTF-308) he was driving and a female passenger, according to Inspector Marlon Meman, commander of the Quezon City Police District Traffic Sector 2.
Realma Cerbito, 7, was killed on the spot while her father, Edgar, 37, died at the East Avenue Medical Center.
The rest of their family – Cerbito’s wife Rowena, 37; and their two children Edron, 5, and Miguelito, 2 – were also injured. Residents helped the victims into a taxi, whose driver brought them to the hospital for treatment, Meman said.
He said the accident happened along Don Mariano Avenue when Oyos’ Civic hit the pushcart, where the five victims were sleeping, at around 3am.
“The wooden pushcart was badly crushed by the impact,” Meman said.
Oyos’ passenger, who was not identified, claimed he was driving home to Smile Citihomes Subdivision when he fell asleep behind the wheel, Meman said.
Granddad holds boy hostage
MANILA: A man held his seven-year-old grandson hostage in Navotas City Wednesday afternoon.
Alejandro de Antonio, 55, was arrested after two hours of negotiating with police officers and Mayor John Rey Tiangco.
Investigators said De Antonio, brandishing a knife, suddenly grabbed his grandson at around 4pm while they were at the second floor of their house. Their relatives sought the assistance of police officers. Tiangco, hearing of the hostage-taking, went to the area and tried to convince to let go of the boy.
De Antonio said he wanted to talk to his daughter, Jenny, the mother of the boy. Jenny was outside the house when her father took his grandson hostage. While the two were talking, several policemen managed to sneak onto the second floor and rescue the boy.
Relatives told police that De Antonio was a former patient of the National Center for Mental Health.
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