3 fires in Pasig, Mandaluyong
FOUR people were hurt in a midmorning fire that destroyed
some 30 houses in Mandaluyong City yesterday.
Teresita Posada, 70, Tony Acordon, Benedict Rivera and Alfred
Tosa, all residents of Martinez Homes Welfare View Compound sustained burns and
were brought to different hospitals after the two-hour fire.
Bureau of Fire Protection-National Capital Region Supt. Ruben
Morales said the cause of the blaze is still being investigated.
The Mandaluyong fire came on the heels of two fires in Pasig
City, one of them occurring last Sunday night at the top floor of an abandoned
building in Ortigas Center in Pasig City. Fire investigators said the fire could
have been caused accidentally by workers using an acetylene torch to dismantle
parts of a small transmission tower.
A second fire which broke out at the corner of Sampaloc and De Castro streets
in Barangay Rosario was put out quickly. No casualties were recorded. –
Christian Oineza
Barangay chair killed in Abra
A BARANGAY chairman was killed and his wife and son injured
when unidentified men attacked them in their house in Dolores, Abra Sunday
night.
Chief Supt. Raul Gonzales, Cordillera Administrative Region
police director, identified the fatality as Rogelio Pimentel Reyes, 56, of
Barangay Isit in Dolores, and the injured as Delia Reyes, 55, and Ronald, 23.
Delia and Ronald were taken to the Abra Provincial Hospital for treatment of
gunshot wounds in the body.
Reports said the Reyeses were resting at the porch of their
house when six armed men wearing ski masks entered the premises and asked the
barangay chairman for snacks, which his wife gave to the suspects.
Moments later, the suspects drew their firearms, opened fire
at the victims then fled toward La Paz town.
Recovered from the crime scene were several empty shells for M-16 and M-14
rifles, and .45 caliber pistol. – Raymond Africa
