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Vol. XX No. 51

February 28, 2001

Virac, Catanduanes

Other News

One killed, 2 hurt in frays

A man attending a public dance did not survive the night after he was stabbed by an unidentified suspect in barangay Tabugoc, Pandan town last week.

Pandan police authorities said the victim, Maximo Sanchez y Arcilla, married and a resident of the barangay, was stabbed in the different parts of his body by his unknown attacker while Sanchez was at a public dance. He was rushed to the Pandan district hospital but was declared dead on arrival at 1:30 A.M. of Feb. 17.

In the capital town, one Leonardo Villegas stabbed Arman Socao y Salalima, 26, married and a resident of barangay Sto. Cristo, in front of the residence of Simeon Asuncion last Feb. 20. Witnesses Luis Tomagan and Michael Vargas saw the suspect plunge a bladed weapon into Socao's chest.

In a related development, a laborer was mauled by four men while he was watching a Junior & Senior Prom night at a school quadrangle the other Saturday in San Miguel town.

Leoncio Saliwan, Jr. y Ubo, 33, married, had just gone to the comfort room and was on his way back to the quadrangle of the San Miguel Rural Development High School in barangay District I at about 12:15 A.M. when he accidentally tripped a chair used by one of the suspects.

The four - Amaleo Terrazola y Tuazon, 23, Manuel Morales, 22, Salvador Bernal, Jr. and one John Doe, all of Buhi and Obo - mauled, kicked and hit the victim's head with a stone. He was rushed to the Bato Maternity and Children's Hospital for treatment while responding cops arrested Terrazola and recovered the stone used on Saliwan's skull.

Meanwhile, a resident of barangay Casoocan in Virac has complained to police that a 17-year old out-of-school youth tried to rape her daughter on Valentine's Day.

The woman claimed that her 18-year old daughter was sleeping beside her four sisters and brothers when Joseph Guerrero allegedly entered the woman's house without permission and tried to rape the teenage girl. The suspect reportedly escaped after the sleeping children were awakened by the commotion.